Bury Your Dead Announce Headlining Tour

Boston metal/hardcore outfit BURY YOUR DEAD will headline one last tour before entering the studio to record its new CD. Support on the shows will come from BRING ME THE HORIZON, ION DISSONANCE and NIGHTS LIKE THESE. Confirmed dates are as follows:

Sep. 21 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ The Culture Room
Sep. 22 - Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
Sep. 23 - Pensacola, FL @ Legion 33
Sep. 24 - Sheffield, AL @ The Rave
Sep. 26 - New Orleans, LA @ The High Ground
Sep. 27 - Corpus Christi, TX @ The Underground
Sep. 28 - Lewisville (Dallas), TX @ Fat Daddy's
Sep. 29 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
Sep. 30 - Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
Oct. 01 - Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory
Oct. 02 - Kansas City, MO @ Static Bar
Oct. 03 - St. Louis, MO @ @ Pop's
Oct. 04 - Chicago, IL @ Logan Square
Oct. 05 - Mishawaka, IN @ Quest SkatePark
Oct. 06 - Detroit, MI @ Myspace Cafe
Oct. 07 - Toronto, ON @ Funhaus
Oct. 08 - Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks
Oct. 09 - Montreal, QC @ L'Inco
Oct. 10 - Quebec City, QC @ L'Anti
Oct. 11 - Portland, ME @ The Station
Oct. 12 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium (Rock and Shock Horror Festival)
Oct. 13 - Pompton Lakes, NJ @ The Mainstage
Oct. 14 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Loft
Oct. 15 - Long Island, LI @ Crazy Donkey
Oct. 16 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian
Oct. 17 - Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz
Oct. 18 - Wilmington, NC @ The Soapbox
Oct. 19 - Jacksonville, FL @ Thee Imperial
Oct. 20 - Tampa, FL @ Orpheum

Capital Chaos TV recently posted a video clip of BURY YOUR DEAD's May 15, 2007 performance at The Underground in Roseville, California. Watch it below.

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Evile Guitarist Slams Illegal Downloading

Guitarist Ol Drake of up-and-coming U.K. thrashers EVILE — whose Flemming Rassmusen-produced (METALLICA, MORBID ANGEL) debut album, "Enter the Grave", will be released on August 27 via Earache Records — has posted the following statement regarding illegally distributed copies of the CD, which is currently making the rounds on torrent sites and via various file-sharing networks:

"If someone downloads an album I think it makes the album sound alot fucking worse.

"Growing up when I bought CDs, I loved having the whole package to it. Vinyl or CD, I'd leaf through everything while listening to it. In a way, getting a feel for the album. I don't understand people who would still have a file on their computer over a fucking old-school CD. It's beyond me why someone could be so disrespectful towards a band by downloading an album, liking it, and not buying it. They're not supporting that band, it's plain stealing. Illegal? Duh?

"I remember at a meeting with the label, we were told about a signing with MORBID ANGEL where a kid brought a CD-R burn of an album up and asked for them to sign it. He just got told to fuck right off regardless of his 'I love MORBID ANGEL' comments. That's how I see it, good for them.

"For me, an album's packaging has alway affected how good an album is. If it's a great album with great packaging/artwork, there's nothing better (METALLICA '…And Justice for All', SEPULTURA 'Beneath the Remains'/'Arise'). If it's got shite artwork, it somehow doesnt come across as good as it should to me (MEGADETH 'Risk', ANNIHILATOR 'Remains'). So when someone downloads something and they don't even have any packaging to go by, they just have the songs on a computer with a shitty little jpeg of the cover, I think it ultimately makes the songs sound not as good. When I hear [METALLICA's] 'Master of Puppets' I (somehow) kind of hear/see that awesome cover, the pictures of the band in the booklet and get a feel for the band at that point in time in their career. The packaging is a landmark in the band's progression and career, why wouldn't someone want that? We put a fuckload of work into the actual packaging and layout/feel of the whole CD, not just the writing and recording. People don't realise that. They're paying for more than just the music. We sat down and spent alot of time thinking and working on how we could make a CD package that would appeal to the people we wrote the music for. Just like we did for the music. Just like all other bands who made packaging for their CDs.

"For a band like EVILE, we're just starting out. Downloading will affect us more than people think. We aren't METALLICA, They've no huge worry about their product not selling. If we sell hardly anything people don't realise how much that can contribute to us not making another CD. It's really that simple."

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Cannibal Corpse Aid Peru Earthquake Victims

According to the Peruvian news agency Andina, legendary death metallers CANIBAL CORPSE have asked their fans to donate food and other supplies during the band's concert in Lima, Peru to aid the victims of the magnitude-8 earthquake which shook the southern coast of Peru, killing over 500 people and injuring 1500.

CANIBAL CORPSE's Lima show is taking place today (Saturday, August 25) at Discoteca Suburvia.

To celebrate Metal Blade's 25th anniversary, the label reissued CANNIBAL CORPSE's 1996 fifth studio album — the first to feature current vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher — "Vile", with an additional four-track DVD filmed at San Francisco's Berkeley Square on February 3, 1997. The CD features a 12-page booklet and completely revised artwork.

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Type O Negative Add Tour Dates

More dates have been revealed for TYPE O NEGATIVE’s upcoming US tour in support of their new album, Dead Again. They are as follows:

October
12 - New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place
13 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
14 - Clifton Park, NY - Northern Lights
16 - Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock
20 - Milwaukee, WI - The Eagles Club
21 - Chicago, IL - The Vic
23 - Knoxville, TN - Blue Cats
24 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
26 - Louisville, KY - Headliner’s
27 - Detroit, MI - Harpo’s
29 - New York, NY - The Fillmore at Irving Plaza
30 - Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero
31 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom

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The Scarlet Hourglass No Longer On ATB Records

In a statement posted by the band on their Myspace, they claim that

"Due to the label having some financial problems, they decided to call it a day for the time being and may return in the near future."

This could cause problems for the band and their forthcoming album release, "Newborn"

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Behemoth Frontman Talks New Album And More

Ofir Messer of Israel's Metalist Magazine recently conducted an interview with BEHEMOTH frontman Nergal. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Metalist Magazine: From first impression of the new record, I can hear that you took a more primitive approach to your death metal, but on the other hand, you put in a lot of modern influences and components. How did this change come to be? Was it something intentional?

Nergal: Not really, I think that everything we did came naturally. We never sit down and decide "let's go this way or that way". I like what you said about the record, in a way, it's more barbaric, and especially when you hear the sound and everything, it feels like it's out of control. Then on the other hand, there's some distinct things going on there, like this bombastic militant, in times a more epic approach for the record. Like I said, there's more extreme atmosphere in this record: on one hand you have songs that are totally out of control, insane and drastic, and then you got songs that are groovier and more atmospheric. I think it's a cool balance; I personally get bored if the album is just brutal from the first second to last, or just fast, because at the end of the day it makes it slow with no dynamics. I think there are very good dynamics in "The Apostasy".

Metalist Magazine: Songs such as "Slave Shall Serve" from "Demigod" use a lot of ancient Middle Eastern religious terms, such as the Jins and Khem. What is your interest in our [Israel's] local history?

Nergal: To be honest, we are unlike NILE or MELECHESH and bands like that; BEHEMOTH is not really keen on history. If you look at our mythological names, and incantations and spells, I use them for certain reason, I use them to express my attitude, my opinion about something. I use this name [Nergal] just to strength that spirit... I find it very strong and very inspirational. If I use some of these names, they have power that channel through them, so I pretty much use them just as expression. You should treat them more as metaphors, that's why there's so many different things in our lyrics. With NILE it's just about Egypt and with MELECHESH its all about Sumerian... And then BEHEMOTH puts fucking everything, because everything I find and interests me in person, I just use it.

Metalist Magazine: You said before that you didn't mean intentionally to move BEHEMOTH from being a black metal band, to be a death metal one. What do you say or think about people who were fans of your earlier work and are not into your current incarnation or vise versa?

Nergal: When you see us live, you see a band that performs songs from the very early career, but then we play new songs that are from our new record. I think that with this band, to capture the whole of it, you don't have to divide our history into periods — you are black metal, you are death metal — it's just all categories, it's just all labels, we don't need that. I think it's all about quality and sincerity, and we are like that — I respect every single aspect of this band and every period is important for me. You can say that we are this, or we are that, but I don't really think it's necessary, I think that we, as a band and artistically, are beyond genres. I actually like that people have problems labeling BEHEMOTH... [Laughs]... I think that it's positive.

Metalist Magazine: It's been some time since your show here in Israel... what do you remember of that time, the show, your trip to northern Israel and such, in comparison to all the places you have been to so far around the world?

Nergal: Actually you should know that Israel is one of my favorite places. Personally I think you have one of the most kind and warmest crowds, and it's been the best show we ever played there. We played two shows, and I've been there three times... All three shows and this [last] one especially were awesome. I loved it; you can see that we had so much fun on stage. And the way people treat us there — we had a very warm welcome, it's just awesome.

I love coming back there also because of the weather, the climate; I love it since it's always nice. Besides that I also like the sights, and the whole historical approach, its just makes Israel the perfect place to visit, not just for show, but also as tourist. I would love to come back there again and if we get a chance in a couple of years we're defiantly going to take it, we're defiantly going to come back and play for you and we'll visit other places. I've already been to many places in Israel and I've even written a song about it, "Christgrinding Avenue" which is about Jesus Christ and Jerusalem. This time we visited "Har Megiddo", "Nazareth" and "Caesarea", and I was blown away. I love this country, man!

Metalist Magazine: How do you feel about performing in Ozzfest this year?

Nergal: Man, this is the dream... It's like a dream comes true, what can I say, I'm totally stroked, I'm excited to be part of this awesome tour, and sharing the stage with killer bands like LAMB OF GOD or HATEBREED... It's awesome. We're playing at the same festival with OZZY OSBOURNE, and delivering the craziest and most insane heavy music known to mankind to all this crowd who might not know what to expect from BEHEMOTH. It gives us more power, it's going to be crazy and I can't wait to start that tour!

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Electric Wizard Complete New Album

British doom veterans ELECTRIC WIZARD have completed work on their new album, entitled "Witchcult Today". According to the band, the CD contains "eight tracks of mind-melting occult rock." The album will feature an "awesome chrome gatefold cover with full-color inserts exposing the sinister world of 'witchcult today'." Among the cuts set for inclusion on the LP is a 20-minute organ-led epic entitled "Black Magic Rituals and Perversions".

On the subject of the studio used during the recording sessions for the new CD, the group previously said, "It's totally authentic 60's recording studio just like SABBATH would have recorded — absolutley no modern shit at all. It's a real honor to be able to record here and to work with people who understand our sound and equipment."

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Sacred Reich Frontman Speaks About Reunion

The following message has been posted via Sacred Reich's official Myspace:

"Friends of the family,

I have been enjoying the hell out of reuniting with =SR= and reconnecting with all our friends and fans. The Arizona and European shows were incredible and we're all amazed by the warm reception and enthusiastic support. You fuckers are amazing and I want to thank you for allowing me and the boys to realize many of our dreams through our musical journey. You are truly a Sacred group to us. Thank you!"

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