Metal News for March 18, 2014
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35 news articles posted on this day.
Enthring Splits With Guitarist
Finnish symphonic death metal band Enthring has issued the following announcement about parting ways with the band's guitarist:
"I’m sorry to inform you all that Petteri is no longer a part of Enthring. After the years of hard work and dedication it is his time to move on and concentrate on other aspects of life.
"He will leave a huge gap to be filled and we want to wish him all the best in his future endeavors. Zero drama is included.
"On the announced gigs Henri Vuorenmaa from My Reflection will be substituting as a guitarist." More...
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Pit Stories: Brian Fair Gets A Broken Nose
Each week we check in with metal musicians to get their most memorable Pit Stories from live shows. Today vocalist Sal LoCoco of New York outfit Sworn Enemy shares this tale of Brian Fair getting his nose broken while out on tour with Death Ray Vision:
So Sworn Enemy set out on a mini tour with Death Ray Vision and Acaro last summer, and we haven't seen Mike D (Killswitch Engage) and Brian Fair (Shadows Fall) in a long time. It was really good to catch up with both of those guys. Also wound up getting very close with the Acaro guys on that tour.
Well to make a long story short the tour is winding down and the last day we are up at Bogies in Albany, our set is going great and we get to our closing song "We Hate." Now at this time Brian has been dancing for us throughout the whole set like a madman. We pretty much get to the last 10 seconds of the song, now mind you none of us in the band seen it happen as we were onstage with the lights blaring in our eyes, we find out that Brian got knocked in the face and busted his nose and had to go to the hospital. Death Ray Vision did not get to play their set. What a way to end the tour. It was crazy that he had that happen to him in the last few seconds of our set.
Death Ray Vision commented on the event back in September of 2013 via Facebook: "Thanks to Sworn Enemy and Acaro for a hell of a good time for the Raging Semi Tour! Thanks to everyone who came out and partied with us! Albany, sorry for not being able to play due to Brian getting his nose broken in the Pit during Sworn Enemy..we'll make it up to you!"
Sworn Enemy's new album "Living On Borrowed Time" is due out Tuesday May 13th, 2014 and you can hear new music from the band over at Facebook here. More...
Alterbeast Streaming "Ancient's Retribution"
Alterbeast's new full-length album "Immortal" sees official release today via Unique Leader, and now you can hear the song "Ancient's Retribution" below.
You can also check out the previously posted tracks "Vile Remnants" and "Mutilated Marvel."
Edgedown Streaming New Track "No One's Prey"
German metal act Edgedown is streaming the new track "No One's Prey" from the upcoming debut release "Statues Fall." The album drops on April 25th via Massacre Records.
The track listing for "Statues Fall" is:
1. Intro
2. Statues Fall
3. In a Dream
4. Rising
5. Shot in the Dark
6. Wasting Time
7. Live Together, or Die Alone
8. No One's Prey
9. Fate
10. Flames More...
Rings Of Saturn Album Seeing Vinyl Re-Issue
While the band works on a third full-length album, Rings of Saturn's first official release “Embryonic Anomaly” is now getting the vinyl treatment via Unique Leader Records. Pre-orders for the LP are up now at the Unique Leader IndieMerch store here. More...
Mire Releases New Album
Two years in the making, Montreal, QC's Mire is proud to announce the official release of new album "Inward/Outward" today.
The album is based on the band's personal experiences ranging from the study of cognitive science to a military stint in Afghanistan and can be heard below or purchased digitally on a name-your-price basis at Bandcamp here. Vocalist JP LaChapelle comments on the release:
"Interpreted through our fingers, tongued and toe tips, this album which we've been working on for 2 years at totally different points in our lives, demonstrates the fan of emotions of 5 individuals' experience.
"The craft is the loom into which our soil-tending, sun-vising and pest-warding efforts bear fruit. Love for the fate of man and the anger to defend it. Overwhelmed with a sense of innate creativity, we all curb our nature to the structures put in place for our short lives; whether building an enterprise, community or institution of any kind. MIRE's decided to make music. Filtered as pure as possible, our passion rendered this product. Our maiden album expresses the plight of an impeached animal nature, faced with the philosophy of man's fate run through questionable funnels.
"Throughout our creative process, we've experienced different stages and shed skins. The 5 colors we shine combine through the prism of 'Inward Outward' to produce the first of MIRE's own hues. Being able to walk one's own path is its own reward and we five musicians feel incredibly fortunate to have seized the chance to create this album. That's what we celebrate every time we hear it." More...
Plague Vendor To Release Debut Album
Epitaph is proud to announce that Plague Vendor will release debut album "Free To Eat" on April 15th.
Check out the new video for "Black Sap Scriptures" in the player below, courtesy of Noisey.Vice.com. The following press release was also issued about the band:
"Plague Vendor's gritty brand of rock was birthed by four friends with a predilection for dark tones and instinctual playing in their hometown of Whittier, California. The name was inspired by a Mexican folk tale that members Brandon Blaine (vocals), Michael Perez (bass) Luke Perine (drums), Jay Rogers (guitar) had read, with the first written songs recalling narrative elements of the story. Early shows were raucous and treacherous, making it clear that Plague Vendor was peddling something formidable.
"With a number of house parties, club gigs, and warehouse shows under their belts, Plague Vendor quickly became synonymous with wild nights, bad decisions, and good times. Fearless front man Brandon Blaine channels the kinetic energy of a brooding, young Nick Cave on stage, with bassist Michael Perez, guitarist Jay Rogers, and drummer Michael Perez providing the pummeling instrumentation.
"Now fully fleshed out and poised to release their inaugural album, Free to Eat, on Epitaph, Plague Vendor embrace multiple sensibilities at once, veering rapidly from aggressive thrash to melodic introspection, compressing the range of human experience into ten rapid-fire, in-your-face songs. Everything was recorded live in the studio, using only two or three takes with no overdubs. A shadowy, dark vibe flows throughout the tracks, and for Blaine, the words are important. The songs say something worthwhile, revealing subconscious interpretations of the musicians’ experiences and ideas." More...
Klogr Announces New Album
Italian metal band Klogr will release upcoming full-length "Black Snow" on April 29th, 2014 via Zeta Factory on physical format and via Believe as a digital release.
Recorded between Zeta Factory and Green River studios, the album was produced by Klogr front man and mastermind Rusty and Tancredi Barbuscia. "Black Snow" will be released in a special digital edition including the band’s 2011’s "Till You Turn" EP and "Ground Zero 11-11-11 Live." Check out an album trailer below.
The lyrics on Black Snow are about a broken world where a prompt reaction is mandatory and there's no room for hesitation, faking or excuses. This concept comes as no surprise, as Klogr actively supports the international organization Sea Shepherd in defense and protection of marine wild-life along with artists like Aerosmith, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Gojira, to name a few.
Frontman Rusty states, “Man has contaminated everything and his contamination was not always a positive thing. What was meant to be evolution is revealing itself to be an environmental and intellectual pollution heading toward self-destruction.”
01. Zero Tolerance
02. Refuge
03. Draw Closer
04. Hell Of Income
05. Life is Real
06. Heart Breathing
07. Failing Crowns
08. Guilty and Proud
09. Plunder
10. Room to Doubt
11. Severed Life
12. Ambergris More...
Floor Announces U.S. Tour
Cult underground rock outfit Floor has announced a U.S. tour this spring. The Noisey/Vice sponsored tour starts on April 30th in Miami, FL, and will see Floor travel throughout the month of April, before ending on May 1st in Atlanta, GA. A full list of confirmed tour dates can be found below.
Floor will be touring in support of forthcoming album, "Oblation," due for release via Season of Mist on April 29th in North America (April 25th worldwide). The track listing is as follows:
1. Oblation
2. Rocinante
3. Trick Scene
4. Find Away
5. The Key
6. New Man
7. Sister Sophia
8. The Quill
9. Love Comes Crushing
10. War Party
11. Homegoings and Transitions
12. Sign of Aeth
13. Raised to a Star
14. Forever Still More...
Down Streaming New Track
Down has unveiled new track "We Knew Him Well" from the upcoming EP "Down IV - Part Two," due out May 13th via Down Records/ADA Music. Give it a listen in the player below.
In support of the upcoming record, Down will take its renowned live show on the road this spring, joining Black Label Society and Devil You Know on a North American tour. The tour, which also includes Down headlining shows and festival appearances, begins at Iron City in Birmingham, AL on May 2nd, and ends at Rocklahoma in Pryor, OK on May 25th.
The run also includes an appearance on May 24th at Emo's in Austin at the "Rock the Heart" concert, a benefit for the late Mike Scaccia's (Rigor Mortis/Ministry) "Heart Rock" Foundation, with the goal of raising awareness about heart disease. Full tour dates are available below.
The "Down IV - Part Two" track listing is as follows:
1. Steeple
2. We Knew Him Well
3. Hogshead/Dogshead
4. Conjure
5. Sufferer's Years
6. Bacchanalia More...
Twilight Streaming Final Album
Chicago's Twilight releases third and final album, "III: Beneath Trident's Tomb," today through Century Media (read our review over here). Six tracks appear on the record and the full album is streaming now at Pitchfork.com here. The track listing is as follows:
1. Lungs (Whitehead/Jameson)
2. Oh Wretched Son (Giannopoulos/Whitehead/Jameson)
3. Swarming Funereal Mass (Whitehead/Jameson)
4. Seek No Shelter Fevered Ones (Giannopoulos/Whitehead/Jameson)
5. A Flood of Eyes (Giannopoulos/Moore/Whitehead/Jameson)
6. Below Lights (Parker/Jameson)
The lineup on this album is:
N. Imperial - vocals
Wrest - drums/bass/vocals
Stavros Giannopoulos - guitars/vocals
Sanford Parker - synths/electronics/production
Thurston Moore - guitar/vocals
Korpiklaani Added To 70,000 Tons Of Metal 2015
70,000 Tons of Metal promoters UMC continued to count down the list of 60 bands for the upcoming 2015 edition of the largest cruise festival, this time adding the 14th band: Finnish folk metal act Korpiklaani.
The festival casts off on Thursday, January 22, 2015 from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with a stop at Ocho Rios, Jamaica, returning on Tuesday, January 26, 2015 aboard a new ship, Liberty of the Seas (via Royal Caribbean), which will accommodate four stages.
All the information on the festival, along with booking information can be found at 70000tons.com. Booking commenced on March 18th for previous cruisegoers and will go on sale to the general public on Thursday, March 21st.
Korpiklaani joins previously revealed bands, with 46 still to be announced:
Annihilator
Arch Enemy
Blind Guardian
Chimaira
Ensiferum
Equilibrium
Grave Digger
Heathen
In Extremo
Origin
Therion
Threshold
Xentrix More...
Triptykon Announces Revised Box Set
After previously recommending fans don't buy the upcoming "Melana Chasmata" box set, Tom Gabriel Warrior has now announced a revised edition of the release.
Triptykon and Century Media Records/Prowling Death Records are proud to announce a special limited edition box set of the band's second album, containing the album's main Mediabook CD edition as well as a selection of unique Triptykon paraphernalia. The "Melana Chasmata" Mediabook features a 32-page booklet and an additional 12-panel fold-out cross-booklet; the paraphernalia comprises a silver Triptykon-"T" necklace, 2 specially manufactured Triptykon candles, a Triptykon tote bag, a poster, and 3 postcards. The box set will be limited to 2000 copies worldwide.
Tom Gabriel Warrior comments: "Some time ago, I voiced my personal disapproval regarding the original concept for the planned Triptykon Melana Chasmata box set as scheduled for release by our licensing partner, Century Media Records.
"It is to Century Media Records' credit that they listened and subsequently approached me to address my misgivings and create a box set that represents the group's ideas and intentions far more comprehensively. I am grateful for such an open and creative collaboration, and I deeply respect Century Media Records for sparing neither effort nor expenditure to please Triptykon and the band's audience.
"I wish record labels would have acted like this in the 1980s." More...
Shadowstrike Streaming New Track "Storm Of Ages"
New York power metal act ShadowStrike is streaming the new track "Storm of Ages." The song appears on the upcoming debut EP "Infinite Power," which is available now. The EP can be purchased as a CD via this location or as a digital download via Bandcamp.
The band was recently confirmed for the Warriors of Metal Fest VII in Ohio in June. For more information, head over here. Check out "Storm of Ages" here:
Corey Taylor To Be Roasted
The Monster Energy Roast On The Range With Corey Taylor is set for Thursday, May 15th at LC Pavilion in Columbus, OH.
Honoring and lampooning Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor will be nearly a dozen musicians and comedians, led by Roastmaster Sebastian Bach. The third annual event in Revolver and Guitar World’s Rock & Roll Roast Comedy Series launches the weekend-long festivities for Rock On The Range (May 16th - 18th), which last year drew rock fans from around the country to Columbus Crew Stadium with over 105,000 tickets sold.
Joining Sebastian Bach on the dais to take aim at Taylor will be Jim Florentine, Don Jamieson, Craig Gass, Brian Posehn, Taylor’s Slipknot bandmate M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan, Scott Ian, Pearl Aday, and actor/comedian Finesse Mitchell. Jose Mangin (of Sirius/XM and Headbangers Ball fame) will also be on hand to serve as the evening’s official DJ and emcee.
Tickets for the Monster Energy Roast On The Range With Corey Taylor are on sale now starting at $75 (plus fees) at LC Pavilion, all Ticketmaster outlets and online right here. General admission and balcony seating are available. Doors for the May 15 event will open at 8:30 PM, and the Roast begins at 9:00 PM.
"Honestly, I don't know what to say. I'm a little nervous, a little excited, and of course a little gassy. But that could just be the excitement,” says Taylor. “I'm really looking forward to it, but knowing my friends and the possibilities for who could be a part of this, I have no idea what I'm getting into!" More...
Necrodeath Releases New Music Video
Legendary Italian black thrashers Necrodeath released the new music video "Wrath." The song is taken from the upcoming new album "The 7 Deadly Sins," the first since 2011's "Idiosyncrasy" and eleventh in the band's thirty year career. The album drops on May 13th through Scarlet Records.
Drummer Peso commented the song: "'Wrath' is one of the most brutal, fast and uncompromising songs we have ever written. In a way, we have gone back to our roots. This song will definetely give you an idea how the album sounds: 100% Necrodeath. 100% Hell!"
Check out the video here:
Velnias Announces Deluxe Reissue
Eisenwald today sets April 21st as the international release date (May 6th in North America) for a deluxe reissue of Velnias' celebrated "Sovereign Nocturnal" on both gatefold LP and CD formats. The following press release was also issued about the band:
"Hailing from Colorado, Velnias came into being in late 2006 and established themselves by force of steady and captivating live performances throughout the years, be it single concerts and rituals or tours with the likes of Agalloch, Mournful Congregation, or the recent EU appearances with Kampfar.
"Originally issued in 2008 and published under several different pressings since then, this reworked reissue of the band's Sovereign Nocturnal debut comes with deluxe packaging and new stunning artwork. With three songs and a total running time of over 40 minutes, Sovereign Nocturnal is widely described as a harmonic combination of sorrowful black metal with a sprawling doom atmosphere, combined with elements of folk & moody acoustic passages.
"Their musical foundation, with intertwined tracks of long, brooding atmospheric monuments and feral-yet-fragile riffs with healthy traces of folk, manages to invoke the sense of a moonlit forest and the spirits within, nature's majesty and humanities irrevocable demise."
The track listing is as follows:
1. Into Arms of Oak
2. Risen of the Moor
3. Sovereign Nocturnal More...
Death Angel Invites Fans To Total Metal Open Air
Mark Osegueda and Rob Cavestany, singer and guitarist of thrash metal band Death Angel, greet fans with an exclusive video inviting them to the Total Metal Open Air Festival that will be held on the 19th and 20th of July in Bitonto, Italy. Check it out below.
Death Angel will share the same stage with 40 bands including Kreator, Annihilator, Behemoth, and Moonspell. Further details about the festival can be found at this location.
Vanhelgd Announces Album Release
Sweden's contemporary death metal tyrants Vanhelgd have completed their third crushing full-length release "Relics Of Sulphur Salvation" and are preparing to inflict their smoldering, riff-fueled warfare upon the religious sects of the human population this May.
The purveyors of underworld music at 20 Buck Spin have declared May 27th as the date Vanhelgd's new album will inundate North American audiences via LP, CD and digital formats, preceded by Singapore-based death merchants Pulverised decimating the international territories with the CD and digital versions on the 26th. The LP edition will be released worldwide by 20 Buck Spin, including limited colored vinyl for mailorder customers.
The "Relics Of Sulphur Salvation" track listing is as follows:
1. Dödens Maskätna Anlete
2. The Salt In My Hands
3. Where All Flesh Is Soil
4. Ett Liv I Träldom
5. May The Worms Have Mercy On My Flesh
6. Relics Of Sulphur Salvation
7. Sirens Of Lampedusa
8. Cure Us From Life
Prong Announces Record Store Day Release
On April 19th, Prong will release an exclusive 7" single for the Record Store Day celebration in the USA with new track "Turnover" on side A and the "Pig Remix" of "Revenge Best Served Cold" by Raymond Watts on Side B.
The single is limited to 3,000 copies and comes in green marbled vinyl. The worldwide digital release of this single is set for April 21st.
Prong will take care of European fans by selling this 7" inch single during a European trek that kicks off on March 26th in Essen and ends on April 20th in Stockholm. During the upcoming tour, the first 100 fans to show up at the venue will receive a free 2 track cardboard sleeve CD. This CD contains another new track from the upcoming album "Ruining Lives" and a track from the 2012 album "Carved Into Stone."
The new album "Ruining Lives" will be released through Steamhammer/SPV in Scandinavia on April 23rd, in Germany on April 25th, in Europe on April 28th and in the US/Canada on May 13th. Catch the band live: More...
Flotsam And Jetsam Announces Lineup Changes
Following a recent European tour, Flotsam And Jetsam has checked in with the following announcement about lineup changes:
"We would like to send out a huge thank you to the many fans and press that came out to support us on our tour with Sepultura. This tour was the largest European tour to date for Flotsam and Jetsam.
"Our main goal is to get connected to all of you, shake your hands, look you in the eyes and let you know how much we appreciate you. You are the life blood of music.
"As you know we released a complete reproduction of No Place for Disgrace this year. This was so we could present the album the way it was intended to heard. Many of you had great comments about this and that confirmed our decision to get this done.
"After completion of the 2013 tour with Testament in the US, Edward Carlson was no longer able to tour due to physical issues that would require back and neck surgery to possibly correct. We will miss our comrade and wish him well on his next adventure. Steve Conley has been officially recruited to fill the spot. Having played with David Ellifson (Megadeth) in F5, we are confident in his ability to hold the spot with integrity. More...
Space Probe Taurus Inks Deal With Ripple Music
Space Probe Taurus has inked a deal with Ripple Music to release "Mondo Satan" later this year. The label comments:
"Ripple Music is proud to announce the signing of acclaimed, hard-hitting acid biker heavy rockers, Space Probe Taurus to their ever-expanding roster! Space Probe Taurus has been around in one form or another since 1992, but it wasn't until a name change and shortening of the songs in 1997 that the band settled down into doing what they still do today: preaching the gospel of dirty garage rock Swedish style. Their music has been called 'biker movie acid fuzz' and that sums it up as well as anything we could say!
"Since the release of the Blue Cheer tribute album Blue Explosion by Black Widow Records, the band has been part of many compilations. And the year after saw the release of their first own record, the Insect City EP on Game Two/Slowdive Records. The band has also been involved deeply in the American low budget movie scene, first providing a song for the 'I Am Vengeance' soundtrack (released by Meteor City Records in 2001), then having 12 songs in the movie Actress Apocalypse. Upcoming in 2014 is the movie Franklin which will include yet another song (a demo version of the song 'Mondo Satan'). More...
Rocksmith DLC Gets 5 A Day To Remember Songs
Learn to play 5 songs by A Day To Remember in the latest downloadable content for Rocksmith. “All Signs Point To Lauderdale,” “The Downfall of Us All,” “All I Want,” “If It Means A Lot To You,” and “It’s Complicated” are now available for download on Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network, or Steam. .
Cobalt Splits With Phil McSorley
Phil McSorley has issued the following announcement about parting ways with U.S. outfit Cobalt:
"I have decided to quit Cobalt. I am grateful for what Cobalt started from, and the impressive amount of people affected by its music. I still feel a connection with the work we did, but I no longer feel that I am a part of its vision.
"Cobalt started with Erik and I making angry and heartfelt music, that later moved into more expressive music. It held a ton of symbology to my life, and for its help in making me who I am I am grateful.
"I will continue to make music on my own terms, but for me Cobalt is best left where it is. Thanks to all for the years of friendship and support. If Erik continues to create under the name Cobalt I support his decision. He was always a genius anyway."
Vampire Streaming Full Album
Swedish old school black/death metal band Vampire released a self-titled debut album (reviewed here) today in North America.
Today you check out all 10 tracks in the player below, courtesy of Bloody-Disgusting.com. You can catch Vampire live:
March 29th 2014 - Kägelbanan - Stockholm, Sweden w/ TRIBULATION, ANTICHRIST
April 5th 2014 - Truckstop Alaska, Gothenburg, Sweden w/ MORBUS CHRON, MIASMAL
May 23rd 2014 - Kristianstad, Sweden w/ IN SOLITUDE More...
Blutmond To Tour With Vulture Industries
Innovative extreme metal bands Vulture Industries, Dordeduh, and Blutmond are set to hit the road together during May on an eleven date tour that will take in countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and Slovenia.
As well as tickets being available from the usual ticketing agencies, special personalized tickets designed by the Romanian artist Costin Chioreanu will be sold exclusively through the webshops of the individual bands. Each ticket will feature the name of the purchaser and will be signed by all the bands.
The "Branches" tour dates are as follows:
21 May: Modra Vopice, Prague (CZ)
22 May: Melodka, Brno (CZ)
23 May: Tirish Pub , Banska Bystraica (SK)
24 May: Blue Hell, Budapest (HUN)
25 May: Daos Club, Timisoara (RO)
26 May: TBA, Cluj (RO)
27 May: Fabrica Club, Bucharest (RO)
28 May: 8 Ball Club, Sofia (BUL)
29 May: Eightball Club, Thessaloniki (GR)
30 May: TBC
31 May: MC Pekarna, Maribor (SLO) More...
Macbeth Posts "Scent Of Winter" Video
Italy's Macbeth has released a music video for "Scent of Winter," taken from new album "Neo-Gothic Propaganda." Check it out below, and the album's track listing is as follows:
1. Scent of Winter
2. Slow Motion Tragedies
3. Void of Light
4. Last Night in Shanghai
5. I Don't Care of Being Just Like You
6. Empire's Fall
7. Dogma
8. Opaque
9. Little Spark
10. The Archetype More...
Harakiri For The Sky To Release New Album
Harakiri For The Sky is now streaming the track "Homecoming, Denied" online, which can be heard below.
The track comes by way of the post-black metal band's upcoming second album "Aokigahara," due out via Art of Propaganda. The album will feature nine track with guest sposts from members of Agrypnie, Faulnis, Heretoir, and Whiskey Ritual. More...
Sorrows Path Signs With Iron Shield Records
Sorrows Path has signed on with Germany's Iron Shield Records for the release of the band's second album "Doom Philosophy." The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Fragile Studios (Athens, GR) by Vangelis Yalamashas and been scheduled for release on September 12, 2014. The album's artwork and track can be found below. The cover was created by Austrian artist Lisa Heschl, and the logo artwork by Belgian artist Christophe Szpajdel (Moonspell, Arcturus, Dimmu Borgir).
Guest musicians to appear on "Doom Philosophy" are Snowy Shaw (King Diamond, Theion, Dream Evil) and guitarist Edgar Rivera (ex-Solitude Aeturnus). The track listing is:
1. First Beam of Darkness into Light (Intro)
2. Tragedy
3. A Dance with the Dead
4. Brother of Life
5. Everything can Change
6. The King with a Crown of Thorns
7. The Venus and the Moon
8. Epoasis
9. Clouds Inside Me
10. Darkness
11. Damned (O)fish/L.S.D. More...
Anti-Mortem Readies New Album
Under Hollywood-based producer Bob Marlette (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rob Zombie), Anti-Mortem’s new album "New Southern" is going to be released April 25th. Leading up to the release they’re heading out on tour at the end of this month opening for Texas Hippie Coalition. Here are those tour dates:
03/28/14 The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
03/29/14 Ground Zero - Spartanburg, SC
03/30/14 Ziggys - Wilmington, NC
04/01/14 Empire - West Springfield, VA
04/02/14 Theatre of the Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
04/03/14 Sound Stage - Baltimore, MD
04/04/14 Webster Underground - Hartford, CT
04/05/14 The Loft @ The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY
04/06/14 The Palladium Upstairs - Worcester, MA
04/08/14 Revolution – Amityville (Long Island), NY
04/09/14 Altar Bar - Pittsburgh, PA
04/10/14 The Machine Shop - Flint, MI
04/11/14 Another Hole In The Wall - Steger, IL
04/12/14 POV's - Spring Lake Park, MN
04/13/14 Route 20 Outhouse - Racine, WI
04/15/14 Wooly's - Des Moines, IA
Cradle Of Filth Guitarist Issues Surgery Update
Last week Cradle Of Filth announced that guitarist James McIlroy would be undergoing surgery, but now Dani Filth has issued the following update about the procedure being cancelled:
"Greetings Filthlings! Remember last week that I told you all about guitarist James Mcllroy's career-changing neck surgery? Well, it seems there was one massive fucking complication. I'll leave it to James himself to explain, by way of an email he sent me yesterday evening... (Please see below).
"I hope you join (with the rest of the band and I) in wishing him all the very best in overcoming this horrible situation he finds himself embroiled in."
James comments:
"Hi Dani, right now I should have been coming to from surgery that would have fixed the pain in my back and arm that has plagues me for years. However, things did not go according to plan this morning and I am left sitting here, back at square one this evening.
"Last night I went into hospital, got admitted, got given a bed and had a few tests done, and one last MRI scan. Everything was set, and this morning, after having not slept all night (hospitals aren't exactly fun to sleep in) I was going through the operation prep this morning, had my ECG, had psyched myself up and was all ready to go with 30 minutes to an hour until they were going to take me in when suddenly i found out that the disc replacement surgery to them meant inserting a small cage in place of the damaged disc and then letting the bones fuse together. Now neck fusion is not what I had believed was going to happen for the past 9 months since the diagnosis, and from everything I have read about it reduces neck mobility and ends up with the other discs getting worn resulting in needing more fusions. More...
Origin And Grave Digger Added To 70,000 Tons
70,000 Tons of Metal promoters UMC kept up a torrid pace of band announcements for the 2015 installment of 70,000 Tons of Metal, this time adding the 12th and 13th bands: U.S. brutal death metal act Origin and German power metal legends Grave Digger.
The festival casts off on Thursday, January 22, 2015 from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with a stop at Ocho Rios, Jamaica, returning on Tuesday, January 26, 2015 aboard a new ship, Liberty of the Seas (via Royal Caribbean), which will accommodate four stages.
All the information on the festival, along with booking information can be found at 70000tons.com.
Origin and Grave Digger join previously revealed bands, with 47 still to be announced:
Annihilator
Arch Enemy
Blind Guardian
Chimaira
Ensiferum
Equilibrium
Heathen
In Extremo
Therion
Threshold
Xentrix More...
Asphyx Splits With Drummer
Dutch outfit Asphyx has issued the following announcement about parting ways with the band's drummer and bringing on a new member:
"Asphyx founding member drummer Bob Bagchus will not longer be playing in Asphyx since he needs more time with his family.
"His duties will be taken over by Stefan Hüskes, who is a longtime friend from the band. We wish Bob and his family all the best. Thanks for the great years of brutality, doom & death!"
Bob also comments: "I'd like to thank all of our fans worldwide for the great, great support and dedication! Cheers!"
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VPOAAWAMC Premieres Trailer For New Split Release
Infamous goregrind outfit Vaginal Penetration of an Amelus With a Musty Carrot is teaming up wfor a new split CD with Mexico's Teen Pussy Fuckers.
"A Fairytale Full of Apotemnophiliac Moments" is due out May 6th, 2014 via Kaotoxin Records, with pre-orders to go online on April 15th.
Today Metalunderground.com is both disgusted and delighted to bring you the first teaser trailer for the split release. Check it out below, and check back next month as we'll also be hosting a stream of the split the day pre-orders become available.
Morning Dwell Releases First Music Video
Swedish power metal act Morning Dwell, featuring ReinXeed/Golden Resurrection drummer Alfred Fridhagen, released a music video for the new track "Unlock All The Doors." The song appears on the upcoming self-titled debut release, which is due out in April 2, 2014 via Doolittle Group.
The track list for "Morning Dwell" is:
1. Introduction
2. Unlock All The Doors
3. Orange Moped
4. Strongest Of Them All
5. Forever And Ever
6. Predator
7. Spread Your Wings
8. The Pirate Song
9. The Gatekeeper
10. World Inside
11. The Story Never Ends
Check out "Unlock All Doors" here: More...
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