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To quickly find what you're looking for use the box below. February 2006 News: Part 2ANGEL BLAKE line-up
revealed!
Marko Tervonen - guitarist and driving force behind ANGEL BLAKE
- has revealed the line-up for upcoming live shows and albums to come.
'I'm proud to announce this strong line up for Angel Blake:
Tony Jelencovich - Vocals
Marko Tervonen - Guitars
Janne Saarenpää - Drums
Örjan Wressel - Contrabass
Christian Älvestam - Guitars
I'm sure you'll recognize some of the names. Janne, my old partner
in crime from THE CROWN days. I´m sure this living drummachine doesn´t need
further introduction. It's an honour to have you onboard homie!
Tony, the man with the pipes from hell. He used to front Transport
League and today uses Mnemic to exorcise the more aggressive demons. Christian,
a long time friend, he's also active in Scar Symmetry and Unmoored to name a
few of his projects. A multi talented artist who will also deliver some backing
vocals live.
And then there's Örjan Wressel - recognize the name? I thought you
wouldn't. Örjan has not been active as a musician in the metal scene before.
ANGEL BLAKE will be his introduction to metal and all the madness that comes
with it. Örjan takes care of the contrabass duties in AB + backing vocals.
Should I mention how heavy a slightly distorted contrabass sounds?
I can't wait to go on stage to deliver some music with this very
strong line-up, it´s gonna be totally awesome! Until then, all the best! CATARACT recording new
album! BLOWOUT SALE First
off, we are clearing out our old merchandise. We’re more or less giving it
away, but not for free haha! We will add pictures of the old items to the shop,
including the prices - so make a hit as long as stocks last. If you order new
stuff we will add a little something (i.e. a shirt) for free if you spend more
than 30 EUR and a big something (i.e. a sweater) if your order exceeds 60 EUR.
Please do not forget to mention the desired size if its not already given
through your order and please note that we do NOT have ALL sizes for the blowout
items in stock. New release in the making! We are currently working hard on our next and fourth full length. We went to eversound studios last weekend and recorded a demo version of ten finished tracks - and it turned out just great. If you liked 'With Triumph Comes Loss', you will like the new stuff! We’ll add some final touches to those songs and we’ll also finish the remaining tracks and then we’re off to the studio at the end of January. Again, we’ll join forces with Tue Madsen who also produced our last album. We’ll keep him busy for the whole month of February and we’re sure this will be a killer recording again! We’ll be writing more about the studio
session in the next newsletter, as we’ll send it our by mid February when we’re
done recording the basic tracks. We’ll also try to update our webpage during
the studio, however, the session is a little bit more important. We also hope
we can confirm a release date by then. As for the CD, we’ve got the layout
almost done by now. We also did some photos on the roofs of Zurich and in the
pits of the Kon-Tiki pub to go with it, plus a new design for the webpage is in
the making and will be released with the CD. We’re thinking about adding a
guestbook - keep checking back so you see what’s going on. First shows 2006
10.03.06 - ébullition, Bulle - CH - supports tba
11.03.06 - Wolfsklause, Oberwolfach - GER - w/epitome of frail
15.04.06 - Killerfest, Amiens - FRA - http://killerfest.free.fr
22.04.06 - Treibhaus, Luzern - CH -
09.06.06 - Devil Days Festival, Sankt Leonhard am Forst - AUT 16.06.06 - Metalliga Open Air, Lustenau - AUT - www.rebelyell.tv EKTOMORF - New album announced On
the July 10th, 2006 EKTOMORF will invade Tue Madson´s Antfarm Studios to record
their upcoming album 'OUTCAST'! ANTHRAX - Support act announced BEYOND
FEAR, the new band featuring former JUDAS PRIEST and current ICED EARTH
frontman Tim "Ripper" Owens, have been confirmed as the opening act
for ANTHRAX on their upcoming European headlining tour. RAGE - Victor Smolski to serve as judge On
February 25, RAGE guitarist Victor Smolski will be a judge together with the
drumming legend Tommy Aldridge (OZZY OSBOURNE, TED NUGENT, WHITESNAKE) at the
Asian Beat Grand Final (ABGF). Asian Beat is a band contest in the Asian
region, with participants from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines who won the preliminary eleminations
in each countries. During the course of the Asian Beat Grand Final (ABGF),
Victor will give a workshop in Singapore, sponsored by Yamaha Asia Pacific
Division. DEATHSTARS - London show confirmed Swedish
death glam rockers DEATHSTARS will be supporting LACUNA COIL on the March 5th,
2006 at the Forum in London (UK). COLDSEED - Begin mixing debut CD COLDSEED,
the new band featuring former BLIND GUARDIAN/current SAVAGE CIRCUS skinsman
Thomen Stauch and SOILWORK singer Björn "Speed" Strid, will begin
mixing their debut album on February 5 with engineer Charly Czajkowsky. The CD
will be completed by the end of the month for a spring release. VARIOUS ARTISTS - New audio samples uploaded NUCLEAR BLAST have uploaded brand new audio samples of upcoming releases from bands like RAGE; BLIND GUARDIAN; SCAR SYMMETRY; BAL SAGOTH; SINISTER amm. Check out the songs here!
IN FLAMES - Live pics uploaded Swedish
melodic Death Metal heroes IN FLAMES have uploaded several live pics from their
appearance at Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles CA; USA from January 28th, 2006 on
their official homepage. Click here
to watch the pictures! GOREFEST - European tour cancelled Dutch
death metallers GOREFEST have issued the following statement regarding their
cancelled European tour: Our sincere apologies to everyone who has been
waiting for so long to see us, and now have to wait even longer. We'd also like
to apologize to MASTER, LUNAFIELD, RESSURECTURIS, and KRAGENS. Just like you
guys, we were all geared up and ready to go. Decisions like these are not
easily made but as much as we wanted to do this, things have been turning
rapidly into a farce. As we refuse to be toyed with, there really was no other
choice. We hope we can rely on everyone's patience, so we can lay out some
frightfully heavy metal for ya as soon as we get things back on track!" CALLENISH CIRCLE Mexico
Tour Report Callenish
Circle supporting Paradise Lost in Mexico -
Tour-report by Patrick Savelkoul- A
few months ago we got an offer to support Paradise Lost on their 3 Mexican
dates. An offer we didn’t have to think about twice since Paradise Lost is one
of the bands that initially inspired us to start playing this kind of music. As
some people still might remember Callenish Circle originally started as a cover
band back in the early 90’ies by playing covers of bands like Death,
Pestilence, Bolt Thrower and yes- Paradise Lost. So it speaks for itself we
were very proud we now (almost 14 years later) got the chance to support one of
these bands. After months of preparations and taking care of loads of paperwork we finally left home on Wednesday 05.30am to catch our first flight in Brussels. The flight from Brussels to Atlanta and from Atlanta to Mexico City went pretty smoothly and at the airport in Mexico City we were already welcomed by promoter Rodrigo (Inferno Productions) and the roadcrew. Soon after that we were picked up by the touring car that would transport us (and fellow countrymen Asrai) during the next 3 days of our trip. During our travel to Monterrey (where the first show was booked) we were first pulled over by the Mexican border patrol who inspected the touring car but not very thoroughly if I may say so. But then, just 2 hours before our arrival in Monterrey, we got a very unpleasant inspection from the national migration service who claimed the paperwork (working visas) were not ok. These f##kers really gave us a hard time ‘cause we had to drive back for almost an hour to their nice little office to get everything sorted. After more than 2 hours of endless waiting at the migration station and Rodrigo paying them a sh*tload of ca$h we were finally released so we could continue our trip to Monterrery where we arrived pretty late in the afternoon. All in all we travelled nearly 40 ! hours (by car, plane & bus) to the first show that was scheduled on Thursday-evening in Club Iguana. After a quick
meeting with the 2 other bands (Paradise Lost & The Birthday Massacre) and Carlos (the other half of Inferno
Productions) we went to the hotel for a few hours of very welcomed sleep. Despite the exhausting travel our very first show on Mexican ground went pretty well and also the audience seemed to like our stuff a lot as they responded in a very enthusiastic way. Unfortunately the (vocal) monitoring on stage was really bad so I forced my voice a little bit too much but all in all it was a nice show and a good warming up for the 2 other shows still to come. When headliner Paradise Lost entered the stage we were kinda curious how the band would sound in 2005. Most of us hadn’t seen the band for quite a long time but all of us
were positively surprised by their tight performance that night. The band
played a superb show and also the newer material sounded really great live.
Well- maybe a classic like ‘As I Die-’ will never be written again but still
the band really caught our full attention and so we decided to watch their
entire set even though we were extremely tired of the exhausting travel. After
the show the club was quickly transformed into a techno/house club and it
looked liked a nice party was going to be started but unfortunately we had to
leave early that night as another long trip was waiting for us. So immediately after the show we went back to the hotel for a quick shower and right after that we continued our trip to Guadalajara, where we were scheduled to play at the well-known Hardrock Live Club on Friday-evening. After a long bus trip of nearly 12 hours (again without too much sleep) we finally reached Guadalajara and it was a very cool venue with a big stage. When we arrived at the venue the first fans were already waiting outside for signatures, photographs and a friendly chat- a sign of what was still to come later on that night. Right after our show we had some mixed feelings ‘cause we made a couple of big fu*k-ups in our set due to the extremely bad sound on stage. For example Gav (drummer) wasn’t able to hear anything of the rest of the band- and that makes playing together pretty difficult I can assure you. On the other hand the fans went completely nuts during our show by screaming out the lyrics, banging their heads like maniacs and going completely crazy in the big slamming pit- hell yeah, that’s the way we like it! After our show we went back into the
venue where we autographed tons of CD’s & concert-tickets and got caught on
photo-camera by an insane crowd. A lot of fans even told us they just came to
see Callenish Circle, which was really a big surprise because upfront we
thought Callenish Circle was still pretty much unknown in the Mexican
territory- how wrong we were! J On the last (Satur)day we travelled back to Mexico City which was an adventure on its own. Mexico City is a huge (the biggest in the world?) city with not less than 26 million inhabitants. That’s 10 million people more than the whole population over here in The Netherlands. It takes more than 3 hours of (highway) travelling to drive through the entire city. People who have been there know what I am talking about I guess- this city was like a big frightening monster swallowing everything and everybody around. So after almost 2,5 hours cruising through the city we finally arrived at the Gran Forum venue. The venue itself was pretty huge and outside the first fans were already waiting for our arrival. Outside there was also a little metalmarket with all kinds of bootlegged merchandise. Our show went really great again and this time without the major f*ck-ups of the day before. The audience went totally crazy once again and even though we were exhausted from the intense travelling we gave our last drop of energy to the insane crowd. What happened after the show
I still find hard to believe- as soon as we left the backstage area we were
surrounded by an almost hysterical crowd who all wanted autographs, pictures,
guitar picks, drumsticks, set lists, even our wet clothing was demanded- maybe
they thought we were some kind of popular boy-band- hahaha. But with this show
we unfortunately also reached the end of the tour and so it was time to pack
our bags and travel back to the airport again. We said goodbye to the lads of
Paradise Lost (and their crew) whom all turned out to be very friendly guys
after all. At
the airport we also got ripped off for nearly 500 Euro by the official money
exchange office. So everybody travelling to Mexico City beware of these
thieves! After a long and totally exhausting travel we arrived back home on
Monday morning- back to normal life ‘cause on Tuesday our regular jobs were
waiting again. Looking back I can say this was not just a musical experience
but definitely a lifetime experience that we will remember the rest of our
lives. So
hereby we want to thank Carlos & Rodrigomo Mejia (Inferno Productions), the
rest of the Mejia family and the entire roadcrew for doing a great job and
making this all possible for us. And last but not least all the fans for coming
out to the shows- be sure we will be back soon! Muchos
gracias amigos !!! Cheerz,
Pat on behalf of C CATARACT studio update
02/02/06 'A
sunny but freezing hello from Denmark to all metalheads worldwide!!! This is
the fourth day of sweating, hitting, crunching, tuning, cracking, thrashing and
swearing care of cataracts latest mission - recording the follow up to
"With Triumph Comes Loss" in Tue Madsen's Antfarm Studios. We're
progressing amazingly well so far, all drum tracks have been pounded into bits
during the first three days of this session. today we gave those tracks the
final check to set everything on GO for guitars, bass and vocals; and
let us tell you, the drum sound will be huge! We also used time to work on the
guitar sound, recorded some bits here and there to see what it sounds like.
Working with Tue - once again - is fantastic and very productive, even though
he's giving us a hard time and loads of "you can do this better"
during the process. We were kinda surprised about how much he has incorporated
into our demo recordings, giving us loads of ideas and alternative views on
what we will do during the recordings. We can be sure that he, as much as we
do, wants this album to be the best and most brutal cataract album ever. And we
can tell you, we're on the right road to that. We'll
get back to ya - we want to watch some Metallica DVDs now!' HALLOWS EVE Re-Issue -
4-Disc-Set!!! Metal
Blade Records is about to release a Deluxe Boxset by HALLOWS EVE entitled
'History Of Terror'. This
boxset includes all three Metal Blade albums (all remastered!), piles of bonus
material and a bonus-DVD (with a playing time of plus 200 minutes!)!!! Liner
notes will be included as well. DEATHSTARS - Enter German charts DEATHSTARS
have entered the German Media Control Charts on Pos. 87! Congratulations! DARKANE - Drum Clinics announced DARKANE
drummer Peter Wildoer will be conducting three joint drum clinics with drum
great Rodney Holmes in Sweden and Denmark. These clinics were arranged by
Peter's endorsers Meinl cymbals and Tama drums. The dates are as follows:
COMMUNIC - TV feature
A
television feature on the Norwegian progressive/power metal trio COMMUNIC was
recently shown in Norway. Watch it online at (Note: the feature
is in Norwegian and the reporter erroneously refers to COMMUNIC as a
"black metal" band).
HAMMERFALL - Video with Olympic Curling team HAMMERFALL
guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on the band's official
web site: AS I LAY DYING to re-release Pluto recordings! Please
stop paying $40 - $75 for our old CD's on used CD websites! This MayJune we're
re-releasing our first two recordings previously out on Pluto Records. Both
"Beneath the Encasing of Ashes",
which was recorded two months after the band started, and our split EP songs, which were
recorded a year later, will both be on one CD. Wait until May and you'll spend
less than $15 to get two CD's worth of material. Understand that it is old
material, but you'll be surprised hearing what we did to some of the songs to
make them sound clearer. Jordan Mancino voted
Favorite Drummer in HM Magazine! *live
photos by Chris Jaime http://www.stillbreathingphoto.com
mailto:John.Stefanis@Kelvinhughes.co.uk
BRAINSTORM announce first
run of festival Shows for 2006 About time to break the silence, dudes. We are proud to announce a first pack of festival dates for Brainstorm in 2006. Our first show this year will see our live debut in Oslo, Norway on the Ragna Rock kick off, followed by a nice trip to Malaga, Spain and some cool German festivals like the Sägfestival, this years Rock Hard Festival and a stop in our neighbourhood on the Rock Am Härtsfeldsee. Also, we are very happy to say that 2006 will see the long
overdue return to the UK where Brainstorm will play the mighty Bloodstock UK
Metalfest. Really very looking forward to kick some serious ass this year and
seeing all of you again. More shows are close to be confirmed, so stay tuned
for more to come. Rock
hard, ride free and god bless you all! Todde
and Brainstorm BRAINSTORM
live: 24.
Feb 2006 - NORWAY, Oslo @ Ragna Rock Kick Off 10.
Mar 2006 - SPAIN, Malaga @ Atarfe Vega Rock http://www.brmusic.net/ 02.
- 04. June 2006 - GERMANY, Gelsenkirchen @ Rock Hard Festival http://www.rockhardfestival.de/ 30.
September 2006 - UK, Derby @ Bloodstock 06 UK Metalfest http://www.bloodstock.uk.com/
SIX FEET UNDER confirmed for Wacken Open Air! We
are proud to announce our third appearance at this years Waken Open Air
Festival 2006 -this August. It should be as brutal as always and we are really
looking forward to bringing the blood to all our crazy German Six Feet
Undertakers!!! We will have more info as it presents itself and corresponding
dates in Europe surrounding Waken as well-stay tuned!!! *Group
photo by Joe Giron http://www.portfolios.com/JoeGironPhotography
THE ABSENCE to shoot video for 'From Your Grave'! Metal Blade Recording artists The Absence is set to shoot their first professional video for the title track off their debut record, 'From Your Grave', on February 3rd, 2006. This journey will
take them from the greater Tampa Bay area up some 1200+ miles to Toledo Ohio to
film in one of the largest and oldest structures in Toledo's historic Old West
End 'The Collingwood’s Arts Center.' The Collingwood’s started out as the
convent for The Ursuline Order of the Sacred Heart, opening its doors in 1905. It is now a
registered historical site, and claimed to be haunted. The
Absence were approached by the directors of Ignition Films LLC, Brian Taylor
and The
band concurs, 'Orbs would make a nice touch, and the unique flavor sounds
delicious!' *live
photos by Will Hawkins http://www.morphusphotography.com
THE OCEAN announce new
member, new video clip & new live dates! We're
happy to welcome guitar player Maik Antrack aboard. Mike debuted with us this
weekend in Oberhausen and Solingen and will be joining us for parts of the
upcoming tour. A new
video-clip for the song "One with the Ocean" is in the making and
will be up on our website soon. The clip was cut by our visual artist Nils
Lindenhayn and is made up of quite hilarious 1970's propaganda material
plagiarised from the United States Ministry of Defence. It is a strikingly
unconventional clip that sets itself apart from the boring
'angry-young-men-in-an-abandoned-factory-building' -style music video-clips so
rampant in the realm of heavy music these days. THE
OCEAN live-update: 04.02.2006
| BERLIN Kato 15.03.2006
| HAMBURG Fundbüro 16.03.2006
| FLENSBURG Kühlhaus 17.03.2006
| DK - ROSKILDE Gimle 18.03.2006
| DK - AALBORG 1000Fryd 23.03.2006
| DK - COPENHAGEN Lades Kaelder 24.03.2006
| SCHWERIN Doktor K 25.03.2006
| NÜRNBERG Kunstverein 26.03.2006
| CZ - PRAHA 007 27.03.2006
| MUNICH Sunny Red 28.03.2006
| A - WIEN Movimento 31.03.2006
| I - MILANO Leoncavallo 01.04.2006
| I - BOLZANO Bunkercenter 09.04.2006
| F - PARIS Le Batofar 10.04.2006
| WIESBADEN Schlachthof 11.04.2006
| KÖLN Sonic Ballroom 12.04.2006
| B - LEUVEN Sojo 13.04.2006
| NL - TILBURG 013 14.04.2006
| NL - AMSTERDAM Melkweg 15.04.2006
| NL - SNEEK Het Bolwerk 16.04.2006
| BOCHUM - Bastion 26.04.2006
| L - ESCH Kulturfabrik 27.04.2006
| KARLSRUHE Substage 28.04.2006
| GROSSROSSELN Rock im Warndt Open Air 29.04.2006
| WÜRZBURG B-Hof 30.04.2006
| EISENACH Gleis 1 booking:
www.hotellounge.de bandsite:
www.theoceancollective.com GOD FORBID Prepares For U.S
Tour With Children of Bodom GOD
FORBID continue their touring assault on the U.S. as direct support to
Children of Bodom this spring. The group just completed a highly successful
run direct support to Anthrax and are currently in the midst of
a headlining run with Sworn Enemy, Manntis and Cannae. They will proceed
to embark on a massive U.K. run with Trivium before heading back to the U.S.this
March. GOD
FORBID recently completed a stunning new video for the track "To The
Fallen Hero" (with acclaimed director Shane Drake [Fall Out Boy, Hawthorne
Heights]). It to will be making its US TV debut on Fuse and MTV2
late next month. Click below to check out some photos from the shoot. http://blog.myspace.com/centurymedia
- scroll down to see the GF boys looking
very dapper, all suited and booted. Doc
Coyle (guitars, vocals) further describes his excitement over the upcoming
influx of touring activity: "Doc here from GOD FORBID checking in
once again from our never-ending touring adventure. We just finished up
a couple weeks with the legendary Anthrax which I have to say is one of
the best tours we have ever done. Most of the shows were sold out or packed
to the gills. Anthrax and their crew were extremely welcoming and
accommodating to us. I was also surprised how cool their fans were. I expected an older crowd, but I thought turnout was very diverse from old to young to even whole families coming out. I think we made a lot of new fans in a short time, which is what it's all about. Anthrax really brings it live, and I really felt like we were part of history even though we were a support band. I'll always remember this tour
fondly.
It's been fun as hell to get back out with our old friends in Sworn
Enemy and new friends in Manntis. We are in the midst of doing some
intimate shows with those guys and the fellas in Cannae on the way home.
It'll cool to play some cities we've never played before in Canada as well. "We
get to rest for a couple weeks, before doing the U.K./IRE tour with Trivium,
which is going to be goddamn huge to say the least. It has also
just been announced that we'll be hitting the road with Children of
Bodom for a few weeks in March-April. I have been a fan since I had to
buy their first record on import. I'm immensely looking forward to this
tour, to say the least. I hear they are quite the drinkers, so I might
have to do prepare for some long nights, dehydration, and a bit of
anarchy. I also wanted to thank everyone who voted for GOD FORBID on the
Sounds of The Underground online poll. We were finished at #1 overwhelmingly
with 22% of the vote. Anyway, see ya on the road." The
group's critically acclaimed new album, IV: Constitution of Treason,
produced by Jason Suecof (Trivium) and Eric Rachel (Atreyu, Dillinger
Escape Plan), the album -- a socially and politically charged vision
of a post-apocalyptic world -- further displays the incredible creativity
and talent of one of the most highly-respected bands in metal today. GOD
FORBID w/Children of Bodom, Through The Eyes of The Dead - U.S. Dates 03/25
House of Blues - Cleveland, OH 03/26
Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH 03/27
Club Zoo - Pittsburgh, PA 03/29
House of Blues - Chicago, IL 03/30
Pop's - St. Louis, MO 03/31
Granada Theatre - Lawrence, KS 04/01
Cain's Ballroom - Tulsa, OK 04/03
House of Blues - Las Vegas, NV 04/05
Sunshine Theatre - Albuquerque, NM 04/07
Colonial Theatre - Sacramento, CA 04/08
Slims - San Francisco, CA 04/10
House of Blues - Anaheim, CA Official
Website - www.godforbid1.com
<http://www.godforbid1.com/> CELTIC FROST: Official
release date for "Monotheist" revealed It's official! The release date of CELTIC FROST's return strike "Monotheist" has been confirmed: On May 29th, 2006 the long-awaited new opus will hit the stores!Prepare for what is probably destined to be the darkest and heaviest creative musical output of the year and undoubtedly a sonic ceremony adequately celebrating the band's highly anticipated return! Four years in
the making, formed around brilliant conceptual ideas lyrically, musically
and visually "Monotheist" is what people expect of the legendary
visionaries and even much, much more. Followed
by extensive live activities during this summer and beyond, CELTIC
FROST is more than ready to present themselves in flesh and blood
again after such a long period of being absent. As
an update on CELTIC FROST's festival appearances the band has just been
confirmed as headliner of the Rock Hard Festival (D) annually organised
by the well-known German hardrock/metal magazine on June 2nd to 4th, 2006. Further
festivals headlined by the band include the European metal event No.1
Wacken Festival (D), Sweden Rock (S), With Full Force (D), Tuska Festival
(FIN) and Hole In The Sky (N). Please
see the individual websites of these festivals or the Century Media
website for more detailed information on the live dates of CELTIC FROST. www.celticfrost.com
<http://www.celticfrost.com/ www.centurymedia.com
<http://www.centurymedia.com/ New Primordial + new
Desaster tourdates! DESASTER
live: 11.02.06 D Leipzig - "Scheddel" Moritzbastei (w/ Holy Moses
and more) 04.03.06 SWE Sandviken - Rockklubben (w/ Devil Lee Rot) 08.04.06
D Trier Exhaus "Tales from the Underground" Festival 21.04.06
D Bamberg Live Club (w/ Delirium Tremens a.o.) 22.04.06
D Weimar Kasseturm (w/ Avatar a.o.) 29.04.06
D Wesseling -Aula Gartenstr. 'Voll auf die Ohren Festival' (w/ Tankard, Blood
Red Angel, Jack Slater, Hexenhammer, Scornage a.o.) 03./
04.06.06 D Bitterfeld - United Metal Maniacs Open Air (w/ Deströyer666,
Dekapitator, Decayed, Primordial a.m.) 15.07.06
D Erbstetten - Metallic Noise Festival Open Air 25.11.06
D Hamm - Ragers Elite Festival (w/ Delirious a.o.) 07.04.06
Fri D Lichtenfels @ RAGNARÖK Festival 08.04.06
Sat NL Arnhem @ Goudvishal 09.04.06
Sun NL Eindhoven @ Dynamo Club 10.04.06
Mon D Hamburg @ Fundbureau 11.04.06
Tue D Berlin @ Kato 12.04.06
Wed D Ludwigsburg @ Rockfabrik NEW!!! 13.04.06
Thu D Bad Salzungen@ Kallewerk 14.04.06
Fri B Vosselaar @ Biebob 15.04.06
Sat D Osnabrück / Georgsmarienhütte @ Tor 3 16.04.06
Sun D Leipzig @ Hellraiser booking/info:
http://www.dragon-productions.com IF HOPE DIES Metal Blade Records will
release the new IF HOPE DIES album 'Life In Ruin' on the 10th of
April in Europe (April 7th in G/A/S)! The
album will be released under license from Ironclad Recordings, the label of
UNEARTH singer Trevor Phipps. 'Life
In Ruin' was produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Jason Suecof (Trivium,
God Forbid, Roadrunner All Stars) at Audiohammer Studios in Orlando,
Florida this past October. A
new track "Fear Will Keep Them in Line" can be heard here http://www.ironcladrecordings.com/
and here www.myspace.com/ironcladrecordings KATAKLYSM - Change plans for 'Crippled & Broken'
video Canadian death metallers KATAKLYSM have changed their plans of
shooting their video for the song 'Crippled & Broken' in Amsterdam this
April. Instead the band decided to film the video clip in Montreal, QC with
Maurice Swinkel of Lowlife Media next week. Although some of the shots and
story plot have already been filmed over last weekend in remote parts of
Holland, the band will be filmed in Montreal from February 16th to 19th.
'Crippled & Broken' is the band's first video from the new album, 'In The
Arms Of Devastation' - which became a favourite of the critics worldwide!!!- ,
and deals with a war veteran dealing with post-war syndrome. According to the
band, "Expect a heavy video exploring the mind of a broken down soldier.
The video should be ready for submission before the band's live assault begins.
Expect a brand new eCard with the video track in the next few days." FOU - Sterling Black Icon On March, 27th
'Sterling Black Icon' - the second full length album (third release in total) -
of FRAGMENTS OF UNBECOMING will be released in Europe (March 24th in
G/A/S). 'Sterling
Black Icon' is a masterpiece of Death Metal with loads of eerie and haunting
melodies. Brutal but melodic, technical but catchy, FOU combine all the
extremes of Death Metal in a massive album. No mercy for the weak! Comments
guitarist Sascha Ehrich: ''Sterling Black Icon' - the 3rd chapter in the
history of FRAGMENTS OF UNBECOMING - takes us miles of steps closer to the
sophistication of the characteristic songwriting we’ve ever been standing for
and nevertheless believe in: 'Swedish Styled Death Metal' (- from Tyskland by
the way). With a new 5th face (Sam Anetzberger) on the front, we
finally could play with a more variable double vocal performance that highly
enriches every single song. We are proud announcing that the entire material
got catchier and much more melodic but not less aggressive! One
hookline persues the next, one twin melody drifts into another - beauties and
beasts never were that close to each other!' The
production of 'Sterling Black Icon' went out great due to the excellent mix and
mastering work of Christoph Brandes at the Iguana Studios (e.g. Necrophagist,
etc.). http://www.fragmentsofunbecoming.com/ VARIOUS ARTISTS - UK street teamers wanted If
you´re creative and you like talking to other fans, hitting message boards,
meeting up with bands and tour managers then you´re the link to the kids!
NUCLEAR BLAST wants you to join the amazing street team in the UK! Do you
think, you've got what it takes to become a ‘royal street teamer’, then click here or send in your profile to dan@nuclearblast.de! IN FLAMES - "Come Clarity" tops the charts Swedish
governments exportation award winners IN FLAMES have entered the Swedish AND
Finish charts on Position #1 !!! Amazing! Congratulations! EDGUY - "Drug Bust" goes bust
Frontman
Tobias Sammet has posted the following tour update at the band's official
website: I was tempted to ask if he couldn't maybe specify what he was in need of exactly. But it seemed they weren't in a funny mood. I mean: we don't do drugs and I told him that all we had was some whiskey and beer. His answer was "Den I come widda dog!" Yes, each to his own, there's people who like to come with dogs. Anyway, the whole procedure took 45 minutes and they turned the bus upside down. We neither had a hostage by the name of Manni, nor did we have drugs. All we finally had was a bad mood and dog's hair everywhere and a terrible smell. Our lighting engineer said it was his first time having been woken up by a dog's a**hole on his face. Weird sh*t happens!!!
SUBWAY TO SALLY - "Echo" nomination SUBWAY
TO SALLY, Germany's most successful "medieval" rock/metal band, have
been nominated for the German ‘Echo’ in the 'Künstler Rock/Alternative
National" category. Other nominated bands are: In Extremo, Element of
Crime, Kettcar and Rammstein.
This past weekend, BW&BK scribe Chris Bruni had the
exclusive opportunity to preview the new, as-yet-untitled VOIVOD album, and
here were some of his observations upon first listen... CANDLEMASS
won a Swedish "Grammy" award in the "Best Hard Rock"
category, beating out the likes of HAMMERFALL, Hardcore Superstar MESHUGGAH and
Opeth. The Swedish doom legends were honored for their self-titled 2005 opus. COMMUNIC - Studio report online COMMUNIC
are currently in the studio working on the new album 'Waves Of Visual Decay'.
They have a studio diary running at this location. The first three entries can
be found below. BLIND GUARDIAN - Tour dates added According
to the BLIND GUARDIAN website, the band have added dates in England and Serbia
to their tour schedule for later this year. Upcoming Blind Guardian dates (with
support from ASTRAL DOORS) include:
IN FLAMES - Wins Swedish Goverments Exportation Award IN
FLAMES wins Swedish goverments exportation award at the Swedish grammy awards.
This is the first metal band ever to win this award. CLAWFINGER - More
tourdates Swedish
rap-metal outfit CLAWFINGER have announced more tour dates for their upcoming
European headlining tour. Confirmed dates are as follows: CANNIBAL CORPSE statement about Wacken 2006 cancellation We
regret to announce that we have to cancel our appearance at the Wacken Open Air
in 2006. The cancellation is due to a scheduling conflict with a large tour in
the USA that we will be appearing on. We have now
been told that the USA tour (more details on this tour will be released on
February 15th) will run from July 7th to August 13th, where originally we had
been told that it would likely run from June until July. We would not have
scheduled a Wacken performance if we had been aware of this conflict. We were really looking forward to playing Wacken, so we are quite
disappointed that this has to happen, but we did not want to cancel a month
long tour to perform a single concert. We are very sorry to all of our fans who
were planning to see us at Wacken, and also to the festival organizers, who are
in no way responsible for our cancellation. We hope to perform at Wacken again
in the years to come, but unfortunately this year it is not possible. http://www.cannibalcorpse.net/
CATTLE DECAPITATION enters the studio! We just entered the studio with Billy Anderson (Swans, Mr.
Bungle, Sleep) the past couple days getting drum sounds right and
tracking has begun!!! We’ve been home for almost a year now writing the next
record and we're finally rounding the bend and putting it to tape. Here are
some shots from the first couple days... more to come!!! May/June U.S. TOUR DATES, new album title and new rhythm guitarist
announced soon!!! CATTLE DECAPITATION http://www.cattledecapitation.com BENEDICTION - To release "Killing Music" British extreme metallers BENEDICTION have set
"Killing Music" as the title of their new album, tentatively due in
June/July. "Why break something if it is not broken?" the group wrote
in a statement sent to BLABBERMOUTH.NET. "We have been a team for nearly 17
years and see no reason to end that relationship!' IN FLAMES - Peter signs in from Chicago Peter
Iwers, bassist of worldwide Swedish chart breakers IN FLAMES has posted the
following tour update at the band's official website. SINISTER - Announce tour dates Dutch
death metal outfit SINISTER have announced the tour dates for their upcoming
European tour, set to take place basically in March/April. Here´s a list of all
confirmed dates so far: IN FLAMES - More chart entries / Köln show relocated Swedish
melodic death metallers IN FLAMES have entered the German Media Control charts
on Position #6 !!! Unbelievable! Congratulations! SONATA ARCTICA - 'Rekoning Night' receives gold! "Rekoning
Night', latest album by Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA, has been
certified gold in Finland for sales in excess of 15,000 copies. HAVA NAGLIAA -
raise your glasses! New downloads on the Metal
Blade website! Several
new stuff has been uploaded at www.metalblade.de
- just for you to download and enjoy! ·
Check
out a new song of the great debut of ANGEL BLAKE at www.metalblade.de ·
There´s
five new video clips to watch - all great stuff worth checking out! Just surf here
and check out these new clips: 3 -
Alien Angel BORN
FROM PAIN - The New Hate CATTLE DECAPITATION - Reduced To Paste DEMIRICOUS - Vagrant Idol THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER - Miasma
NEAERA touring with CALIBAN!
Metal Hammer presents: "Darkness Over Europe" - Tour Caliban
+ The Agony Scene + NEAERA 31.03.
Hamburg - Grünspan (+ Maintain) additional
NEAERA shows: 10.03. Bergkamen,Oberaden, Yellowstone 17.04.
Saarbrücken - Stoneage 06.05.
Düren, Komm 20.05.
Brandenburg, HdO (+ Six Reasons To Kill) CHROME DIVISION - "Booze, Broads + Belzebub" - Welcome aboard "Booze,
broads + belzebub" - NUCLEAR BLAST is proud to announce the signing of the
five Norwegian road bandits CHROME DIVISION! CHROME DIVISION is centered around
the backbone of DIMMU BORGIR mainman Shagrath. Namely DIMMU BORGIR and The Kovenant. Nothing happened until years later,
when they finally decided to meet up again. The summer of ’04 Shagrath called
up his long time friend and bassplayer Luna, of "Ashes To Ashes", and
asked if he wanted to meet up and jam some bad-a*s rock’n roll. Suddenly they
were a trio. During months of rehearsing and beer drinking, the band took
shape.
BLEED THE SKY - US tourdates announced BLEED
THE SKY have announced the dates for their upcoming tour, set to take place in
Feb. / March : IN FLAMES - 'Come Clarity' rules the charts IN
FLAMES have entered even more charts around the world, here´s an overview about
the entire chart entries of 'Come Clarity' DIMMU BORGIR - Poised to write concept album DIMMU
BORGIR guitarist Silenoz spoke to BW&BK (special report by Adem Tepedelen)
recently regarding the pending recordings for their upcoming album, the
follow-up to 2003's 'Death Cult Armageddon' album which recently surpassed the
100,000 sales mark in the US. The band is currently in what Silenoz calls 'full
writing mode' and working hard on completing what will surely be the most
highly anticipated of the band’s career. Then people start to believe that he is in
league with the Devil and perhaps even the Devil himself. So, I’m writing the
lyrics from that idea. It’s not like I have an answer to the story or anything;
I want to leave that open. It’s fair to say that the plot is that you won’t find
answers about the mysteries of life through religious beliefs. If you find an
answer at all you will find it inside yourself.'
We’re just going to take the whole process as it comes. We’re going to do a full
pre-production recording in our own studio and might even go to a regular
studio just to try out a few songs, just to see what it’s gonna end up sounding
like. Hopefully by the fall we will be in the studio with [producer] Peter
Tagtgren so we can at least have it out in early 2007.'
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - TH appearance on HR3
(tv) German
avantgarde metallers DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER will be the featured live on
"LIVE AUF DEM TAUBERTAL OPEN AIR 2005" on Monday morning, February
20th at 01:05h AM on HR3 (‘Late Lounge’, right after ‘Rockpalast’). Watch it!
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