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-- NEWS --
BLACK SABBATH
Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford stood in for Ozzy Osbourne at the
Camden, NJ Ozzfest stop when the Sabbath singer was forced to sit out due
to bronchitis
SIX FEET UNDER
for the release of 'Graveyard Classics 2' Six Feet Under will record
AC/DC's infamous 20 times platinum release 'Back In Black' in its entirety
GORGOROTH
drummer Dirge Rep (Orcustus, Enslaved, Gehenna) and guitarist Teloch
(Orcustus, Nidingr) will be session members for the upcoming European and
Mexican tours
BOLT THROWER
vocalist Dave Ingram has left the band due to "health and personal
problems" - recording of the next album will now be delayed until a
replacement is found
DISMEMBER
bassist Johan Bergebäck has replaced Rickard Cabeza
HEATHEN
bassist Jon Torres (Thunderhead, Laaz Rockit, Angel Witch) has replaced
Mike 'Yaz' Jastremski
ION VEIN
original bassist Brian Gordon has returned to the fold
MUSHROOMHEAD
vocalist Jason Mann has left the group
SEVER THE FALLEN
the band has called it quits
TAROT PRODUCTIONS
this new label has been started by drummer / vocalist Proscriptor (Absu,
Melechesh) to furnish the underground communities with high quality
releases - the first release will be Proscriptor's 'Thoth Music(k)' - also
in the works are limited releases from Absu, Equimanthorn, Melechesh,
Heaven's Devils, Goreaphobia, Magnus Thorsen, Equitant, Divine Eve and
Starchaser Network
OZZFEST
due to the approach of Hurricane Frances, the final Ozzfest date scheduled
for Saturday, September 4 in West Palm Beach, FL has been cancelled
NEW SIGNINGS
Tribunal Records: The Chase Theory
Year of the Sun: Cradle To Grave
-- HELP WANTED --
DRUMMER wanted - The Lotus Experiment is an avant-garde band with a heavy
influence - looking for a dedicated drummer who is willing to put in the
hard work to make it in this crazy scene - located in Central Florida -
have plans to tour and record - musical preferences do not matter, an open
mind does - contact:
Mlaroe@carpeoplemarketing.com
DRUMMER wanted - Necrotic Disgorgement, featuring 2 ex-Regurgitation
members, seek drummer in the Washington C.H., Ohio or Ohio in general area
- just released a full length CD - band combines excellent technical
skills with brutality - contact: necroticdisgorgement@yahoo.com
GUITARIST wanted - Vomit Remnants seeks guitarist - based out of Tokyo,
Japan - influences: Gorgasm, Decrepit Birth, Deeds of Flesh, Pscycroptic,
Mortal Decay, Fleshgrind, Dying Fetus, Dyscrasia, Lust of Decay, Necrotic
Disgorgement, Necrophagist, Broken Hope - must be experienced and
dedicated with super fast and also slam grooves - serious inquiries only -
contact: vomitremnants@hotmail.com
DRUMMER wanted - Lividity seeks drummer - based out of Peoria, IL. /
Champaign, IL - influences: Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Suffocation, Morbid
Angel, Obituary, Slayer, Napalm Death - must be experienced and dedicated
with double bass, blast beats, grind, and contributor to the writing
process - great personality, easy going, hard working, serious inquiries a
must - own equipment, transportation preferred - no addicts - contact:
kibler4@sbcglobal.net
-- REVIEWS --
- METAL JUDGMENT -
http://www.metaljudgment.com
Grave 'Fiendish Regression'
(Abyss, Death, Hel)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/albums/gravef_frames.html
Dead Soul Tribe 'The January Tree'
(Abyss, Death, Hel)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/albums/deadsoultribe_frames.html
Dead to Fall 'Villainy & Virture'
(Jotun)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/deadtofallv_frames.html
Torchbearer 'Yersinia Pestis'
(Behemoth)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/torchbearer_frames.html
Morgion 'Cloaked by Ages, Crowned in Earth'
(Martyr)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/morgion_frames.html
Destiny 'The Tracy Chapter'
(Requiem)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/destiny_frames.html
Pro-Pain 'Run for Cover'
(Redwolff)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/propainr_frames.html
Rain Paint 'Nihil Nisi Mors'
(Lugubrious)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/rainpaint_frames.html
Brazen Abbot 'Guilty as Sin'
(Equinox)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/brazenabbot_frames.html
Anima Nera 'Anima Nera'
(Goatwhore)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/animanera_frames.html
Dismember 'Massive Killing Capacity' - Classic
(Slither)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/classics/dismember_frames.html
Whorrid - Demo
(Slither)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/demos/whorridb_frames.html
In Heaven and You - Demo
(Metal Militia)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/demos/inheavenay_frames.html
Kalopsia - Demo
(Kefka X)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/demos/kalopsia_frames.html
Dark Deception - Demo
(Dguy)
http://www.metaljudgment.com/demos/darkdeception_frames.html
-- NEW RELEASES --
8/23 - Napalm Death - Leaders Not Followers 2
8/23 - Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry (rerecording)
8/23 - Lullacry - Fire Within
8/23 - Grave - Fiendish Regression
8/24 - Insision - Revealed And Worshipped
8/24 - Transmission0 - 0 (Zero)
8/24 - Lullacry - Fire Within
8/24 - Single Bullet Theory - Behind Eyes Of Hatred
8/24 - The Mandrake- Burning Horizon At The End Of Dawn
8/24 - Ewigkeit - Radio Ixtlan
8/24 - Further Seems Forever - Hide Nothing
8/24 - Meliah Rage - Barely Human
8/24 - Anvil - Back To Basics
8/24 - Old Man Gloom - Christmas
8/30 - Dio - Master Of The Moon
8/30 - Kingdom Come - Perpetual
8/30 - Edenbridge - A Livetime In Eden
8/30 - Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
8/31 - Jordan Rudess - Rhythm of Time
8/31 - Children Of Bodom - Trashed, Lost & Strungout
8/31 - Mastodon - Leviathan
8/31 - Danzig - Circle Of Snakes
8/31 - Resident Evil: Apocalypse
9/06 - Cataract - With Triumph Comes Loss
9/06 - Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns
9/07 - Amorphis - Far From The Sun
9/07 - Grave - Fiendish Regression
9/07 - Unleashed - Sworn Allegiance
9/08 - Pain Confessor - Turmoil
9/13 - Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine
9/13 - Mortiis - The Grudge
9/14 - Blackfield
9/14 - Age of Silence - Acceleration
9/14 - Lilitu - The Delores Lesion
9/14 - Dead To Fall - Villainy and Virtue
9/14 - Godsmack - Changes (DVD)
9/20 - Saxon - Lionheart
9/20 - Shadows Fall - The War Within
9/20 - Divercia - Cycle Of Zero
9/20 - Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos
9/21 - King Diamond - Deadly Lullabyes Live
9/21 - Croatan - Drunken Masters
9/21 - Silent Voices - Inferno
9/21 - Hypnosis - Cyber Death
9/21 - Malevolent Creation - Conquering South America
9/21 - Hateplow - Mosh Pit Murder
9/27 - Jag Panzer - Casting The Stones
9/27 - Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
9/27 - Mnemic - The Audio Injected Soul
9/28 - Metal Church - The Weight Of The World
9/28 - Choosing Death: The Original Soundtrack
9/28 - Imperial Sodomy - Demolished
9/28 - Carnal Lust - Rebirth In Hate
-- ON THE NET --
LORDS OF METAL
http://www.lordsofmetal.nl
issue #40 is now online featuring: 37 Stabwoundz, Alexisonfire, Amon
Amarth, Amoral, Asrai, Ayreon, Blackfield, Cataract, Cradle Of Filth, Dead
Soul Tribe, Doro, Eloquence, Elvenking, Fear My Thoughts, Fenriz,
Glittertind, God Among Insects, Grand Illusion, House Of Shakira, Jordan
Rudess, Lake Of Tears, Manatark, Mercenary, Metal Church, Morgenstern,
Napalm Death, Nibdem, Nile, Scenteria, Shaman, Skyclad, Smogus, Stan Bush,
Thanatos, The Butterfly Effect, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The
Flowerkings, The Lost, Threshold, Time Machine, Turisas, Unholy Ghost,
Vesania, Wintersun, Xystus, Zao
MUSIC EXTREME
http://www.musicextreme.com
issue #29 is now online featuring: IV Luna, Benighted, Eternal Tragedy,
Kill By Inches, Lelio Padovani, Omniscient, Ophis, Tao Menizoo
METAL CENTRE
http://www.metalcentre.com
new interviews: Fleshcrawl, Blindead, Draconian, Fallen Wisdom, Human
Fortress, Torture Killer
TARTAREAN DESIRE
http://www.tartareandesire.com/
new interviews: Kevin Sharp, Malevolent Creation,
Incantation, Facebreaker
PIVOTAL RAGE
http://www.pivotalrage.com
new interviews: Lamb of God, Cannibal Corpse Part 2, Calgary, Ethereal
Collapse
-- TOUR DATES --
(dates are subject to change - check local listings)
CANNIBAL CORPSE w/ NAPALM DEATH, VADER, KATAKLYSM
& GOATWHORE
10/29 Houston, TX
10/30 Austin, TX
10/31 Dallas, TX
11/02 Phoenix, AZ
11/03 Los Angeles, CA
11/04 San Diego, CA
11/05 Anaheim, CA
11/06 San Francisco, CA
11/08 Denver, CO
11/09 Lawrence, KS
11/10 Minneapolis, MN
11/11 Milwaukee, WI
11/12 Detroit, MI
11/13 Chicago, IL
11/14 Cleveland, OH
11/16 Pittsburgh, PA
11/17 Philadelphia, PA
11/18 Farmingdale, NY
11/19 Worcester, MA
11/20 Alexandria, VA
11/22 Atlanta, GA
11/23 Tampa, FL
11/24 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
DEICIDE w/ GOATWHORE, CATTLE DECAPITATION & JUNGLE ROT
09/16 Ft Lauderdale, FL
09/17 Atlanta, GA
09/18 Fayetteville, NC
09/19 West Springfield, VA
09/20 New York, NY
09/21 Philadelphia, PA
09/23 Pittsburgh, PA
09/24 Cincinnati, OH
09/25 East Dubuque, IL
09/26 Minneapolis, MN
09/27 Chicago, IL
09/29 Denver, CO
10/01 Seattle, WA
10/02 Portland, OR
10/04 San Diego, CA
10/05 Los Angeles, CA
10/06 Santa Ana, CA
10/07 Las Vegas, NV
10/08 Albuquerque, NM
10/09 Oklahoma City, OK
10/10 San Antonio, TX
10/11 Corpus Christi, TX
10/12 Houston, TX
FEAR FACTORY, LAMB OF GOD, CHILDREN OF BODOM
& THROWDOWN
10/07 Charlotte, NC
10/09 Detroit, MI
10/10 Cleveland, OH
10/11 Norfolk, VA
10/13 New York, NY
10/15 Worcester, MA
10/16 Philadelphia, PA
10/19 Buena Vista, FL
10/21 Atlanta, GA
10/22 Memphis, TN
10/23 Lawrence, KS
10/24 Denver, CO
10/26 Vancouver, BC
10/27 Seattle, WA
11/05 Dallas, TX
11/06 New Orleans, LA
11/08 Sauget, IL
11/09 Chicago, IL
11/10 Milwaukee, WI
11/11 Columbus, OH
11/13 Latham, NY
11/14 Washington, DC
THERION
09/24 Ankara, TUR
09/25 Istanbul, TUR
09/30 Stockholm, SWE
10/02 Thessalonkiki, GRE
10/03 Athens, GRE
10/09 Moscow, RUS
10/20 Warszawa, POL
10/21 Pozna, POL
10/22 Krakow, POL
10/23 Wroclaw, POL
10/24 Hamburg, GER
10/25 Berlin, GER
10/26 Stuttgart, GER
10/27 Prague, CZR
10/28 Erlangen, GER
10/29 Glauchau, GER
10/30 Antwerpen, BEL
10/31 Amnevile, FRA
11/01 Duisberg, GER
11/02 Tilburg, NETH
11/03 Gronningen, NETH
11/04 Frankfurt, GER
11/05 Worgel, AUT
11/06 Vienna, AUT
11/07 Lubilijana, SLO
11/08 Budapest, HUN
11/09 Munich, GER
11/10 Milano, ITA
11/11 Pratteln, SWI
11/12 Strabourg, FRA
11/13 Limoges, FRA
11/14 Rennes, FRA
11/15 Paris, FRA
11/16 London, UK
11/17 Lille, FRA
11/19 Lyon, FRA
11/20 Montpellier, FRA
11/21 Toulouse, FRA
11/22 Barcelona, FRA
METAL MASSACRE
http://www.churchofthe8thday.com
9/06 - Los Angeles, CA
Cephalic Carnage, Misery Index, Crematorium, Phobia, Srpsism, Coffin
Texts, All Shall Perish, Animosity, Fetus Eaters, Anemosity, Nema,
Cerberus, Endarkened, Intestinal Strangulation, Saprophagus, Tchildres,
Gatekeeper, Tazumal
FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF TOUR DATES GO TO:
http://www.metalupdate.com/tour.html
-- LINKS --
BLACK SABBATH
http://www.black-sabbath.com
SIX FEET UNDER
http://www.sfu420.com
GORGOROTH
http://www.gorgoroth.org
HEATHEN
http://www.heathenmetal.com
ION VEIN
http://www.ionvein.com
MUSHROOMHEAD
http://www.mushroomhead-music.com
SEVER THE FALLEN
http://www.severthefallen.com
OZZFEST
http://www.ozzfest.com
THE CHASE THEORY
http://www.thechasetheory.com
CRADLE TO GRAVE
http://www.cradletograve.ca
THE CLAN DESTINED
http://www.theclandestined.com
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