Metal Blade News 11/18/2004 radio show, TRC, SFU, cataract video, plus BMA and Ironclad[views:36605][posts:0]______________________________________ [Nov 19,2004 1:38pm - the_reverend ""] web version: http://www.metalblade.com/mbr-updates/MBupdate11-18-04.html November 18, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRIAN SLAGEL hosts one hour show on HardRadio.com every month! 2005 marks Metal Blade Records owner/CEO Brian Slagel’s 6th year hosting a show on HardRaio.com and his 8th year total for hosting his own radio show. Every month Metal Blade Records Label chief, Brian Slagel, hosts a one-hour show on HardRadio.com where Brian plays the best of old school metal, new stuff and rare recordings from his personal collection. Also, there are lots of guests on the show as well from the world of heavy metal. To check and see what guests will be on Slagel’s show go HERE. Upcoming guests are listed at the top of the page. The show airs the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm central time. The next 2 shows we recorded from Brian’s trip to Tokyo where he recently went to celebrate the opening of Metal Blade Records Japan. First is Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth in December and then Lizzy Borden in January. To catch the show with Johan on Tuesday, December 7 go to hardradio.com at 7pm PST/10pm EST. *In other news Metal Blade Records Inc. just had it’s party for the opening of Metal Blade Japan. In attendance was MTV, EAT Magazine, BURN Magazine, GrindHouse Magazine, Michael Lara from Metal Hammer Magazine, Smash, CreativeMan, Kuni Takeuchi from the TV show Party Dude, Teddy Ohtsuka from the Hard Rock Café, Johan from Amon Amarth, Tim from As I Lay Dying, Joey Vera from Armored Saint/Fates Warning/Anthrax, Lizzy from Starwood, Billy Sheehan, Metal Blade owner and CEO Brian Slagel, Metal Blade President Michael Faley, Senior VP Tracy Vera, and VP of Retail/Marketing Dan Fitzgerald. Here are some pics from the party that took place in Japan at the Hard Rock Café. *There are also a growing number of Minor League Hockey Teams that are now airing Metal Blade Records videos on their screens before games. Here are some links to check out the teams and arenas: Corpus Christi Rayz (Corpus Christi, TX) http://www.ccrayz.com/ http://www.americanbankcenter.com/index2.php Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees http://www.killerbeehockey.com/ http://www.dodgearena.com Colorado Eagles http://www.coloradoeagles.com/ http://www.co.larimer.co.us/theranch/bec/ http://www.metalblade.com/ THE RED CHORD Drummer/ album update from Guy: After the last year of having a rotating spot behind the kit, we have finally found a drummer who we believe will be the permanent guy from here on out. His name is Brad Fickeisen. Some folks from Massachusetts may remember his playing from being in a band from the area called Eviscerate years back. We had some pretty huge shoes to fill with previously working with drummers like Mike Justain, Jon Dow and John Longstreth. Brad can definitely hold his own. He has some great chops, hits hard and can blast with the best of them. He has an interesting style that flows with our new material. I definitely don't foresee their being any disappointment from people familiar with us once you all get to check this guy out. As for the new recording, we are going into the studio with Zuess at Planet Z starting the first week of January, which sets us at a May release date for the release of Clients. Some songs that will definitely be on the new album include Fixation on Plastics, Upper Decker, Stupefaction, Hospice Residence & Antman. The band will resume playing shows in February/March after the recording is complete and will probably be on the road for the majority of 2005. In other news, bassist Gregory Weeks is slowly coping with the trauma of now being the second tallest member of the band. He is expected to recover completely. http://www.theredchord.com SIX FEET UNDER release new video: Six Feet Under have released the video Dead and Buried (Living Life in the Grave), directed by Jerry Clubb. Dead and Buried is a new studio track recorded in March 2004 ad appears on the Six Feet Under Live with Full Force DVD/CD release. Dead and Buried will premiere on MTV2’s Headbanger’s Ball on Saturday November 20th. The video will also premier on FUSE’s Uranium on Sunday November 21st. Go to http://www.mtv2.com/ & http://www.fuse.tv/ or check your local listings for times. To see the video now, or to check out photos from the video shoot go to Mental Suplex Productions. http://www.sfu420.com/ CATARACT video to premier on Headbangers Ball! Cataract’s video for Nothing’s Left off their latest release With Triumph Comes Loss will debut on premier on MTV2’s Headbangers Ball this Saturday, November 20th! Make sure to tune in and catch what is sure to be one of the hottest up and coming hardcore acts out of Switzerland. The video has also been receiving airplay on FUSE’s Uranium and is sure to stay in rotation so make sure to tune in to Uranium every Saturday and Sunday to catch the video! http://www.cataract.cc/ THE HEAVILS update from Mossy: Rick and Miles Nielson played with us at the Jager Music show at the Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, WI. Together, we did “Just Got Back” as the last song. It was crazy! The crowd went nuts!! Slayer rules! Drink Jager. Laugh a lot everyday. Guitar Player Magazine and The Heavils are giving away a one-of-a-kind Meanie!! This custom-made guitar features two Gibson Dirty Fingers humbuckers and was built by The Heavils' own guitarist, Brian Carter. To enter to win the Heavils Meanie, click here, or go to http://www.guitarplayer.com/ and click on Giveaways. One entry per person. All entries must be received by December 31, 2004. Good luck!!! http://www.theheavils.com YOB Update from Mike: YOB recently had our CD release show for The Illusion Of Motion in Portland, Oregon. It was held at a fantastic club called Sabala's. We were lucky enough to have three stellar bands on the bill with us: Drunk Horse, Subarachnoid Space and Ludicra. There was a fantastic turn out and everyone had a great time! And to top it all off Kelli Malella flew up from Simi Valley to hang with us and see the show! It couldn't have been better. DOOM!!! http://www.yobdoom.com KING DIAMOND tour update: The legendary underground icon, King Diamond, has confirmed the second leg of “The Puppet Master” Tour. This full U.S. tour starts on April 14th, 2005 in Florida. Supporting King Diamond on this outing will be Into Eternity and The Black Dahlia Murder. For more info go to Metal Blade or Coven Worldwide KING DIAMOND Tour w/ Into Eternity and THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 4/14 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room 4/15 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues 4/16 Atlanta, GA Masquerade 4/18 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero 4/19 New York, NY BB King’s Blues Club 4/20 New York, NY BB King’s Blues Club 4/22 West Springfield, VA Jaxx 4/23 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance 4/24 Worcester, MA The Palladium 4/26 Cleveland, OH House of Blues 4/27 Chicago, IL House of Blues 4/28 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre 4/29 Sauget, IL Pop’s 4/30 Minneapolis, MN Quest Club 5/02 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre 5/05 Seattle, WA Fenix Underground 5/06 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre 5/08 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues 5/09 Anaheim, CA House of Blues 5/11 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre 5/12 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre 5/13 El Paso, TX Club Xcape 5/14 San Antonio, TX Sunset Station More dates coming soon! http://www.covenworldwide.org CATTLE DECAPITATION update from Travis: We leave today for the Darkest Hour/Between the Buried And Me/Fear Before The March Of Flames tour. Check the SHOWS section HERE for the nearest date we can destroy you at. We'll have 3 new shirt designs, hats and hoodies on this next tour. We'll also have a bunch of the defect-color vinyl version of HUMANURE. Only 180 were made with sides 1&2 on shit brown vinyl with sides 3&4 on orange like the rest of the pressing. Get yours now while you can! There will be a Cattle Decapitation contest and interview with Travis on PETA2.org during the first week of December. Check it out: http://www.peta2.org/ *photo by Jeff Easton http://www.cattledecapitation.com INTO THE MOAT update from Matthew: Our new album “The Design” is officially done being recorded and it already sounds amazing. All that is left is for it to be mastered, which is taking place this Friday at West West Side. At least one new song should be up on the site, which is getting a completely new layout to coincide with the album, within the week. So yeah…lots of exciting stuff happening over here. Go to the site for new stuff!! *live photo by Rev Aaron http://returntothepit.com http://www.intothemoat.com GOD DETHRONED rise to the top! Great news for GOD DETHRONED! Their new album The Lair Of The White Worm has won the soundcheck of Rock Hard (Germany) magazine – to be published in the December issue! The album also ended up on 3 in the Legacy-soundcheck and on 6 in the Metal Hammer soundcheck. Great results for a great band! The website of God Dethroned will be completely renewed and re-launched as of Friday November 12. Make sure to check it out! Update from Henri: It was about time, but it’s finally here; the totally renewed website! A new line-up, a new CD, lots of shows in the worx, check it out here. Sign up for our newsletter so you will be updated with our news and upcoming shows when you don't check this website on a regular basis. We also posted a poll to find out what your top 10 of favorite God Dethroned songs are. We will use the results to prepare our set list for future shows, because we wanna play the right stuff live. Soon we will have tabs of our songs on the website too. For the freaks who wanna know what we play exactly. First, the songs of Lair of the White Worm, and then the rest (piece by piece). See you soon on the road somewhere on this rotten planet! http://www.goddethroned.com/ STARWOOD’s new video for Subculture finished! Starwood complete first video for the song “Subculture” from their debut release If It Ain't Broke, Break It! The video for “Subculture” represents the entire attitude from If It Ain't Broke, Break It! straight up, faster then the eye can see visions of Hollywood. From the clubs to the streets, this is the ‘first look’ of what the song subculture and the band Starwood is all about. “We were born and raised here. When we were looking for a concept for this video we soon realized we didn’t need one, we already live in one. Hollywood is the greatest concept there is. We just pointed a camera at it and pulled the trigger! Everything that song has to say lyrically was at the other end of that camera. This was just a postcard from our backyard to the rest of the world” states Lizzy, lead singer for the band. The video for Subculture can be viewed here. The band recently just played a show with rock legends UFO at the Hollywood House of Blues and here is what bassist Marten Andersson had to say about it: “Last night we kicked off our live show at the House of Blues/Hollywood. This show was somewhat of a test-run for many more to come next year and we got off to an amazing start. We had a great time on stage, It just gets better and better. We really enjoyed meeting and talking to everybody. Thanks for coming out!!!” Also be sure to check out the bands site for their new merch that is now available! http://www.starwood-band.com/ Major BOLT THROWER announcement! Bolt Thrower have found a replacement for the recently departed Dave Ingram. The band are very happy to announce that original vocalist Karl Willetts has rejoined them as a full-time member. Karl said, "It's fantastic to be a part of the mighty Bolt Thrower again. It feels great to be back with the guys, I can't wait to get my teeth into the new songs and get back on the road again. I've got some unfinished business to attend to...!" The now complete line-up of Bolt Thrower - Karl Willetts, Gavin Ward, Barry Thomson, Jo Bench & Martin Kearns will spend the next few weeks finishing off the new material and plan to go into the studio in the new year. http://www.metalblade.com/bands/Bolt_Thrower/index2004.html NEAERA in the studio Neaera have started recording their debut album The Rising Tide Of Oblivion for Metal Blade Records! “Two of us have already hit the studio and started recording The Rising Tide of Oblivion. As you can imagine, we are really curious about the result, the rest of us can’t wait to enter the studio as well to contribute to the record”, comments singer Benny. Recordings take place at Stage One Studio, Germany with producer Andy Claassen at the desk! http://www.neaera.com/ GOATWHORE Tour update from the band: Goatwhore will no longer be on the road for the rest of this year. We would like to apologize to all of the people that have come out to shows so far to see us and we haven’t been there. Internal problems have raised their ugly heads so the bans is in a state of limbo at the moment. More information will be posted in the next week. Thanks to all that came out up to the Denver, Colorado show. That was the last show for us before we headed home. Keep posted for further information. *live photo by Stephanie Cabral http://www.goatwhore.net BLACK MARKET ACTIVITIES news update: FROM A SECOND STORY WINDOW update from the band: Our current news as of now- we have finished our second song and are almost done with a third... so... progress is just as expected for the new CD. We appreciate the ENORMOUS amount of emails from everyone asking us to do shows or come bro-down. I am sorry we have had to say no in most cases, but I promise once we are ready to hit the road again, you will see us all the time. We DO have a few shows lined up to keep us busy, including a RARE trip to Syracuse and possibly some shows in NJ being worked on... more to come later. The details for the shows will be posted on our site shortly. I also think we might do a Christmas show just for fun. We will need to break slightly from the writing process and also, possibly, make a demo next month... it just depends on the weather. Also, a huge thanks to everyone who went out and made our first few weeks of sales in stores really, really strong! You are keeping us afloat. It totally sucks ass that we have sold around 7000 CD’s on our own without any of them being sound scanned but hey... what are 7000 more purchased in stores? Make us happy kids and go buy our CD again and again. It means the world to all of us. Next, if you get a chance, pick up the latest issues of Metal Maniacs and Metal Hammer we got some very nice reviews in both!! Thank you, Guy, for helping us on that one and also for just being a bro in general. Finally, keep the merchandise orders coming!! We definitely need the money to stay afloat until we can get back on the road again. Speaking of which, we have some BIG tour plans ahead of us after the New Year... a start to the world domination plan. In the meantime, brush the dirt off your shoulders and keep rocking our CD while you crush invalids on Halo 2!!! http://www.fromasecondstorywindow.com PSYOPUS tour update from Chris: This is Chris from PsyOpus. Things are going great. We are on tour with Paria right now and things are going pretty smoothly at this point. We have a new drummer named Lee Fisher (ex - Commit Suicide). Greg's life was leading down a path separate than that of a drummer who could dedicate himself to the beaten path of constant touring. We separated on good terms. Lee kind of got involved into a rushed scenario. He had short notice and we really didn't want to cancel the dates we had with Paria. We played a few rocky shows at the beginning. We took two days off, put our talents to the grind, and now he is totally up to par and mixing up our set with his amazing skills. As far as other tours go, we are doing some dates in December about to be announced and last I heard we are going to be doing dates with Glass Casket in Jan. And yes… there will be west coast dates… finally. http://www.psyopus.com RADIO NEWS: PARIA - Misanthropos CMJ Loud Rock: #26 (#1 Debut) FMQB's Metal Detector: #66 BORN FROM PAIN - Sands of Time CMJ Loud Rock: #1 Added CMJ Crucial Spins: #3 Added FMQB's Metal Detector: #3 Added, #59 Debut RELEASE SCHEDULE: 10/19 PsyOpus – Ideas of Reference – CD 10/19 From A Second Story Window – Not One Word Has Been Omitted - CD 11/2 Born From Pain – Sands of Time – CD 11/2 Paria – Misanthropos CD IRON CLAD RECORDINGS news update: IF HOPE DIES update from the band: If Hope Dies topped the CMJ Loud Rock Charts for the most added CD of the week. "The Ground is Rushing Up to Meet Us" made its debut at #49 overall and is climbing fast. The re-release for "The Ground is Rushing Up to Meet Us" hit stores this week and should be available everywhere. If it isn't, let your local store know they NEED it. There will be some tour updates coming soon, so keep checking back. http://www.ifhopedies.com RADIO NEWS: IF HOPE DIES - The Ground Is Rushing Up to Meet Us CMJ Loud Rock: #28 Debut CMJ Crucial Spins: #33 Debut (#1 Debut on chart) FMQB's Metal Detector: #33 (up 13 spots) RELEASE SCHEDULE: 11/2 If Hope Dies - The Ground Is Pushing Up To Meet Us – CD 2/22 Since the Flood – Valor And Vengeance – CD CONTESTS: Win Yourself Into UNEARTH! Brought to you by OneGoldenSpoon.com & Metal Blade Records Ok so you won't win yourself into Unearth. But you will win yourself into a place that looks like Unearth! Or, you might just win a bunch of stuff that is all about Unearth. Or, one winner will receive a CD, a DVD, a T-shirt, some stickers, and a poster. And then a few other people will win just the DVD. But that in itself is cool enough. Enter by filling out the form located HERE telling us what makes you so special that you should win this contest. Bribes are welcome, although winners will be chosen at random. Once you press submit you will be sent back to our list of contests. Closing Date: Nov. 30 http://www.onegoldenspoon.com/ & http://www.metalblade.com/ QUICK BITS: METAL BLADE RECORDS WANTS YOU! We now have an abundance of Six Feet Under postcards and posters for their new album "Graveyard Classics 2". Metal Blade is looking for dedicated metal fans to pass out postcards/posters to help promote this release at local venues and music stores. If you accept the challenge: Email your name, address and phone number to metalblade@metalblade.com. Put in the subject line "SIX FEET UNDER Graveyard Classics 2 STREET TEAM". Send pictures of yourself handing out postcards/posters and we will send you a free copy of "Graveyard Classics 2"!! Serious inquiries only please! Metal Blade Records' My Space page has been launched. The page will be kept up to date with news from our bands, tour updates, banner ads, and much more! To check it out go to: http://www.myspace.com/metalbladerecords Music Choice's Last Rites: Music Choice's Last Rites- the only death, thrash & black metal show on television! For more information to http://www.musicchoice.com/lr METAL BLADE RECORDS eBay Store! Be sure to check out the Metal Blade Records eBay store for all the latest and hard to find Metal Blade releases since the company’s beginnings!!! 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