Metal News for September 25, 2009
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30 news articles posted on this day.
Interview
An Interview With Fallen Martyr
Washington DC based metallers Fallen Martyr released their second EP “The Six Roots of True Will” in June of 2009. Samples of the tracks “The Man Becomes The Prophet,” “Reverse Metamorphosis,” and “All In” can be heard at the band’s MySpace page. Fallen Martyr’s guitarist Gabriel Luis shared with me the history of the band and their upcoming tour and recording plans.
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No Consequence Posts Two New Songs Online
U.K. metal band No Consequence recently posted their two new tracks "The Fallen" and "Latitudes" online. Both songs come from the band's new album, "In the Shadow of Gods," which came out on August 31st through Basick Records.
Nervecell Taps Benighted Drummer To Fill-In
Nervecell has found a fill in drummer for the few shows that were potentially in jeopardy due to a death in their drummer's family. The drummer of French death metal band BENIGHTED will touring with Nervecell for the rest of the tour.
Canopy Readies New Album, "Will And Perception"
Swedish death metal band Canopy is readying their sophomore album, "Will and Perception," for release via Disconcert Music on October 13, 2009. The album features eight songs of pure Swedish death metal as well as a guest solo from Kristian Niemann (THERION) on the epic 10 minute song “Will.”
You can check out a new song from “Will and Perception” on the label's MySpace page.
God Dethroned Issues Road Report
God Dethroned has issued the following road report about their recent South American tour dates:
"At the moment I’m sitting in the plane from Houston to Tucson and we have nearly finished the first leg of our War Propaganda World Tour.
"We started off in Brazil and had a really good time there. The atmosphere was really nice and laid back. Something we had to get used to was the Brazilian sense of time. When we arranged to meet somehwere we would be there, tight on the spot, but after doing this for one day we adpated ourselves pretty quickly to the Brazilian pace of doing things and just stayed relaxed in our hotel rooms until the promoter phoned us that it was time to go to the venue, which was usually a couple of hours later than initially planned, so no rush there. One disappointment in Brazil was the cancellation of our Sao Paulo show. To make a long story short: it all came down to money and corruption. From Brazil we had an extremely turbulent flight to Peru (of which some of us thought we wouldn’t survive, hehe!). We played three cool shows there and endured some of the most extreme and long busrides ever!
"Then we headed to Ecuador, which was a really beautiful country with an insane crowd! You guys rule! Our bustrip from Ecuador to Colombia was also really memorable because of the really beautiful scenery. In Colombia we played two very cool shows with the sympathetic guys from Belphegor and again the crowd was really great! More...
For Ruin Offering Album As Free Download
Ireland's For Ruin have released their second album "Last Light" as a free download through the band's newly relaunched website. The album will also be available through all major digital outlets soon. "Last Light" was recorded earlier this year with producer Alwyn Walker at Komodo Mobile Studios and it features artwork by Paul McCarroll. Two songs from the album titled "In Suffering" and "Care of the Dead" also are available for streaming on the band's MySpace page.
The track listing for "Last Light" is as follows:
01. Enlightened
02. Care Of The Dead
03. Decline
04. In Suffering
05. Solace
06. Recoil
07. Crawl (instrumental)
08. Deluge
09. Cold Call
10. Elysium
Deathead To Answer Fan Questions
Utah metallers Deathead have issued the following announcement about seeking fan questions to answer:
"The band will be doing an interview based off of fan questions. To Get your questions answered you must post them on the bands forum at this location. The forum is open for questions until October 10th. At that point all questions will be submitted to the band and it will be compiled in 'interview' form and each question will be given credit to the author. We'd like to see everyone take part and get their questions answered."
Dead By April Confirmed For Loud Park Festival
Sweden's Dead By April has issued the following update about playing the Loud Park Festival in Japan:
"We are honoured to let you know that we are confirmed for the legendary 'Loud Park' festival in Tokyo. It's really going to be amazing to come to Japan! Unfortunately that means that we are canceling to of the gigs on the skindred tour but it has to be done! We are also having aheadlining gig in london just added!"
Dead By April's currently confirmed tour dates are as follows: More...
Decline Finishes Recording Debut Album
Polish extreme metal band DECLINE has completed recording their debut album. The yet-titled album will be released via Asphyxiate Recordings on a date to be determined.
In the meantime, you can check out some of Decline's music on their MySpace player.
Archaic Eclipse Seeking New Vocalist And Guitarist
New Hamphsire's Archaic Eclipse have issued the following update about seeking a new guitarist and vocalist:
"We are currently looking for talented people to fill the positions of a guitarist and a second vocalist. If you are interested please fill out the questions here to give us an idea of your background and your experience. Please only reply if you think you are capable of playing our style of music."
AC/DC Announces South American Tour Dates
AC/DC has issued the following announcement about adding on new South American tour dates:
"Last time South America witnessed the sheer power of AC/DC in concert, the band was breaking balls. Well, AC/DC's bound for South America once again and this time they're riding in on their Rock 'n Roll Train as part of their Black Ice World Tour. Get ready, fans in Brazil and Argentina... AC/DC has announced that they will perform at Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo on November 27 and at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires on 2 December.
"These mark the first South American concert dates for AC/DC since the band performed a series of shows in October of 1996 as part of the Ballbreaker World Tour. Tickets for the Morumbi Stadium concert in Sao Paulo go on-sale to the public and members of the Fan Club through a special allotment on Thursday, 1 October and for the River Plate Stadium concert in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, 29 September."
The currently confirmed AC/DC tour dates are as follows: More...
Leaves' Eyes Announces Russian Show With Atrocity
Leaves' Eyes has issued the following announcement about a Russian tour date with Atrocity in February:
"On Feb 20th 2010, LEAVES’ EYES and ATROCITY once again will show up in Moscow! The bands are looking forward to meet all the Russian Fans and celebrating a great Live Party!"
The details are as follows:
20.02.2010 RU – Moscow, XO Club
Metallica Posts Interview With Alice In Chains
Metallica has issued the following announcement about posting an audio interview online with Alice in Chains:
"Just prior to hitting the stage at Knebworth for the final European show of 2009, James and Lars sat down with the guys from Alice In Chains to talk about life, Layne, and of course their new album that hits the streets on Tuesday. Check your local radio station for the full AIC special including songs from the new album, or listen to the interview sections here."
Mower Seeking New Guitarist
As was previously reported, Mower has canceled their tour with Skinlab due to the departure of their guitarist. The band has now issued the following update about seeking a new guitar player:
"Mower, and their punk lounge act, Slower, are looking for a permanent guitarist and band member to record and tour with us. Those of you following along know that we just took a real hit and had to cancel a tour. It sucks, it's lame, but we aren't going to waste any time finding a permanent guitarist to step in and join our crew. We're looking forward to working with a professional musician who is prepared to tour, perform, write, rehearse, promote, handle his own gear, pull his own weight and have a good time with us. Mower has uploaded tutorial videos for guitar online at this location.
"Interested guitarists should learn the following songs in the key of D, drop C tuning. Auditions will be held on a first come, first serve basis. If your versions of the songs do not sound like the CD versions or you aren't able to play all the way through each song, then you are not ready to audition. Mower lives in San Diego, but we will accept video auditions from out of state musicians. We appreciate all the support we're receiving in emails and posts and we look forward to meeting some talented new friends during these guitarist auditions. We can be reached at mowerinfo@yahoo.com Please focus on the following songs first: Current Mower Set List: Long Awaited Riot The Party 10' X 10' Road Rage General Admission Pieces N.N.D. Wrestle With The Pig The Song We Don't Speak Of GWAR - Crack In The Egg Wolves
"Current Slower Setlist: Shut Up And Skate Road Rage Faded Seedless U-Turn The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville You're Out Get Out Pieces N.N.D Little Green Bag."
Dave Mustaine Reveals Autobiography Title
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced that he will be naming his autobiography, "Hello Me... Meet The Real Me", which is the opening line from the classic Megadeth song, "Sweating Bullets." The book is expected to be released by the end of 2010. Stay tuned for further information about the book.
Taking Dawn Issues Update from Dragonforce Tour
Las Vegas metal band, Taking Dawn, has issued the following update on their current and first ever tour with Dragonforce:
"We are about 2 weeks into our tour with Dragonforce and everywhere has been pretty fuckin insane! We couldn't ask for better responses from you badass motherfuckers! You are making us feel like a fucking headliner every night and for that we thank you. We sold out of our EPs last night in Edmonton. This first batch of CDs was supposed to last us through the next 2 tours and we are already out. Sounds like our record label was underestimating us and maybe thought we would be a bunch of non CD-moving bitches. Not the case." More...
Ebonillumini Posts New Music Video Online
Ebonillumini has posted a music video online for the song "Into Forests So True," which is from their EP "The Ebon Channel." The video clip can be viewed below. More...
Darzamat Announces Mexican Show
Darzamat has announced an exclusive concert in the capital of Mexico, alongside the Finnish folk metallers Korpiklaani. The gig is scheduled to take place at the Circo Volador club on the 30th of October 2009. Darzamat is currently promoting their new album entitled "Solfernus’ Path," released by the German Massacre Records on the 28th of August (the Japanese release having been handled by Spiritual Beast).
Vocalist Nera issued the following statement about the show:
"For a long time we’ve had the idea to play in Mexico, so we’re really happy that we’re finally going to make it. Not only is it a wonderful adventure for us, but also a very important event, since our albums have been selling extraordinarily well over there. We’ve been getting great feedback from our fans in Mexico, so we just know it will be an unforgettable night. We’ve booked our return tickets for the 1st of November, so it looks like we will be able to make it with the second show in this beautiful country. But if for some strange reason it doesn’t happen, well, we probably will have something else to focus on… like visiting the formidable Mayan temples."
Dark Tranquillity Streaming New Teaser Track
Melodic death metallers Dark Tranquillity will release their “Where Death Is Most Alive” DVD / live album on October 26th, 2009 in Europe and November 11th, 2009 in the US. The DVD will include 20 songs filmed in Milan (Italy) in 2008 as well as a second DVD containing previously unreleased live footage, promo clips, and a 47 minute documentary.
The main show’s audio, mixed by Tue Madsen, will also be released as a separate live 2 CD and you can now listen to a new teaser track, “Therein (Live in Milan 2008)”, at the band’s redesigned MySpace page.
Aeon Announces Three Tour Dates With Mayhem
Aeon has announced that they will be performing at three upcoming shows with black metal act Mayhem in Sweden. The confirmed dates are as follows:
25.11.2009 Mayhem - Aeon + support @ Musikens Hus, Gothenburg
27.11.2009 Mayhem - Aeon + support @ Klubben, Stockholm
28.11.2009 Mayhem - Aeon + support @ Gamla Tingshuset Östersund
Bloodsoul Cancels MCD To Focus On Full-Length
Finnish death metal band BLOODSOUL has cancelled plans to produce their "Ancient Evil" mCD in order to focus on a full-length album instead. The decision was made in light of drummer Teemu "Snake" Laitinen suffering an accident at work resultign in bone fractures in both legs. Therefore the band decided to put the mCD recording to rest and focus directly on the full length album recording at the end of the year, allowing time for Snake to get back on his feet.
In the meantime you can check out some of the band's past material on their MySpace page.
Tomorrow Will Never Come Posts New Demo Online
Swedish hardcore/metal band Tomorrow Will Never Come has posted four songs from their new demo on their MySpace player for listening.
The band has a few upcoming shows, listed below:
Oct 16 2009 9:30P NORDISKA GÅRDSBANDS FESTIVALEN HUSQVARNA, Jönköpings län
Nov 11 2009 8:00P PINNEN NÄSSJÖ, Jönköpings län
Nov 13 2009 8:00P INSIKTEN JKPG, Jönköpings län
Sixth Episode of The Flaming Skull Podcast Online
Once again India's India's first and only enhanced podcast "The Flaming Skull Podcast" releases it's 6th episode, which in fact is a special episode according to the metalheads behind this Podcast.
Malcolm Soans and Roydon Bangera commented - "We talk about ‘the global village’ everyday. But the question we ask here is do we know our neighbours? Today, we want to talk about our sub-continent- India and our neighbours. Like any nice neighbourhood we get friendly, we get hostile but that’s all in a day’s work. We are in every sense next door to every country around us and we were thinking…just thinking..May be its time we get to know our neighbours better and we should start the initiative to that.
The flaming skull podcast is a download-able radio show dedicated to the promotion of metal bands. TFS is just any other form of entertainment media, but in our path we ended up finding our cause. To be honest, TFS never started out thinking beyond spreading good Metal. But as we did that we started realizing that there is more to our sub-continent then what we thought. In the past few months, as we spoke to many metal bands from the Indian sub-continent. We realized we DESERVE a sense of oneness which can in turn support the talent we have. And we cannot be waiting for that to be bestowed upon us. We needed to find our means to achieve that, than wait for it to be given to us. This came to us gradually as through 5 episodes we slowly got to know ‘our neighbors’. Music is a language that has no boundaries, as cliché as it is to quote that we know it is true. Metal genres are no exception to that. We can and we should use it to set aside other boundaries that pull us back.
With the 6th episode of TFS coming out this Saturday we thought we should take this further. On this episode will be featured bands from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan and India. This initiative is not just to vouch for good metal, but to extend our hands out to our brothers and support them. Our medium is metal, we bond over it we respect each other through it and will grow with it to recognize our artist as one’s with an distinct identity.
Global unification, as defined by many people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, and you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. Why? Simply because having it does not imply we are using it well. We are TRYING to work on this. We are not here for meaningless propaganda, we have a aim in mind which we wanted to share with you. So if you can do tune into the 6th episode of The flaming skull podcast at http://tfspodcast.blogspot.com/ on 26th of September. Support the metal scene, Support your sub-continent.
Destroy our countries borders for we are one, together we stand as the united metal nations"
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Agathodaimon Updates Tour Schedule
Germany's Agathodaimon have announced the following three upcoming tour dates:
9/25 Juz Hängematte Sulzbach-Rosenberg
9/26 Eternal Frost Festival IV Naila
10/3 Dark Metal Night Mainz
God Dethroned Posts "Poison Fog" Music Video
God Dethroned has posted a new music video online for the song "Poison Fog," which is from their latest album "Passiondale." The video clip can be viewed below.
Gunfire 76 Updates Tour Schedule
Gunfire 76 has updated their upcoming tour schedule with the following dates:
11/11 Red 7 w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Austin, Texas
11/12 Zombie’s w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming San Antonio, Texas
11/13 Marquee w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Tulsa, Oklahoma
11/14 FuBar w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming St. Louis, Missouri
11/15 Wrong Daddy’s w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Kirksville, Missouri
11/16 Triple Rock Social Club w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Minneapolis, Minnesota
11/17 The Garage w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Kearney, Nebraska
11/18 Cervantes Masterpiece w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Denver, Colorado
11/20 El Corazon w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Seattle, Washington
11/21 Satyricon w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Portland, Oregon
11/22 Voodoo Lounge w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming San Jose, California
11/24 The Whisky w/ Bullets and Octane & The Becoming Hollywood, California
11/27 Clubhouse Tempe, Arizona
11/28 The Galaxy w/ Bullets and Octane Santa Ana, California
12/1 Concorde 2 w/ Bullets and Octane Brighton
12/2 Waterfront w/ Bullets and Octane Norwich
12/3 Academy 2 w/ Bullets and Octane Bristol
12/4 Vice w/ Bullets and Octane Swansea
12/5 Rescue Rooms w/ Bullets and Octane Nottingham
12/6 Academy 2 w/ Bullets and Octane Birmingham
12/7 Cathouse w/ Bullets and Octane Glasgow
12/8 Academy 2 w/ Bullets and Octane Newcastle
12/9 Academy 3 w/ Bullets and Octane Manchester
12/10 Garage w/ Bullets and Octane London
12/11 Academy 2 w/ Bullets and Octane Oxford
12/12 Cockpit w/ Bullets and Octane Leeds
Hail Of Bullets Posts Remixed Song Online
Dutch death metallers Hail of Bullets have issued the following announcement about posting a remix online of the title track from their EP "Warsaw Rising:"
"Guess what?! Mr. Swanö has been sending us some re-mixes of the title track of our most recent mini album and we decided to share one of those with you guys! Check the player and enjoy it!!"
Karma To Burn To Release Live DVD
Karma To Burn has issued the following update about releasing a new live DVD:
"Further to the 2009 Reunion Tour that took us all around the States and Europe, we are happy to announce to those who missed the shows, and to those who didn't get enough, the release dates of the video shootage of those historic moments:
25.11.2009 – Finland & Spain
27.11.2009 – Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux & Italy
30.11.2009 – Rest of Europe
15.12.2009 – USA
12.01.2010 – Canada
"Run to your next door store and get it ! There are many extras you definitely don't want to miss like the legendary performance at Dynamo Festival in '97 and many more.. in total the DVD contents will burn your ears and fry your brains with more than 3h30 of fucking good Stoner Metal !!!!!"
Mastic Scum Reveals New Album Details
Mastic Scum has issued the following statement about finishing the recording of a new album:
"We recently completed work on our 4th full-length album 'dust' which will be released on Nov. 13th by Twilight Distribution. The artwork & layout was designed by Killustrations (Six Feet Under, Kataklysm, Amon Amarth)."
The track listing for "Dust" will be as follows:
01. Ashes To Dust
02. Construcdead
03. The Consciousness In A State Of Mind
04. Regression
05. Dead Remains
06. The Sufferage
07. Blood For Blood
08. Revelation Of Mankind
09. A Life For A Lie
10. Adrenaline 2.0
11. The Will To Kill
12. Extinction
Eyes Of Noctum Issues Road Report
California's Eyes of Noctum has issued the following road report:
"Hey everyone,
"We're just about half way done with the Endurance of Iron and Blasphemy tour. So far it's been nothing but a great experience, in great places with great people. We really enjoyed rocking with you guys every night, and want to thank everyone who came out to see us - it's been an honour. Also hoping to see more of you guys come to our following shows starting with the one in Las Vegas on Sept. 25th! Thanks to everyone supporting us, see you all soon!"
The band's upcoming tour dates are as follows:
9/25 Yayo’s Las Vegas, Nevada
9/26 Gathering of the Bestial Legion Los Angeles, California
9/27 Voodoo Lounge San Jose, California
9/28 The Metro Oakland, California
9/29 The Fire Escape Sacramento, California
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