Metal Blade News 2/10/05 - TRC, SFU, paria and more.[views:34128][posts:0]______________________________________ [Feb 10,2005 9:04pm - the_reverend ""] February 10, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SIX FEET UNDER update from Chris Barnes! Hey just wanted to say what’s up to everyone and let you all know what’s comin’ up...we’re currently rehearsing here in Tampa, for the upcoming No Mercy fests, and really lookin’ forward to that. We’re psyched to play a few of the new songs from 13, which will be released on March 22nd. I have been listening to this CD at least 4 times a day since we completed it and I am now convinced that it is our Reign in Blood as in this is our best CD to date. I in no way, shape, or form mean to suggest that 13 is better than, sounds like, be as ground breaking, or will be remembered with as much regard in the history of metal as Reign in Blood. To clarify for those of you who don’t get it, and for those of you who are quick to dismiss us, let me break it down once again... in my opinion this is our best most exciting work since Maximum Violence and I am thoroughly excited and proud of what we did on this CD and to those who doubt us, you would doubt us no matter what, and to our fans -you wont be disappointed. The proof is in the pudding and pretty soon… you’ll be face first in it. It’s fucking insane -believe it. The video for Shadow of the Reaper is currently in the editing process with director Gary Smithson at the controls. We’ll have a rough here in the next week or 2. It was definitely the most professional video shoot we’ve ever been involved with so look out for that its gonna be vicious. Another thing that’s being worked on is a complete reworking of our website. All fans are urged to send any live pics or bootleg video of the band for use on the site should do so through our website...some of the photos and footage may just end up in an upcoming special release, but more on that in a few months...and I just want to also put a special shout out and best wishes to a true fan of Six Feet Under, Kyle McCall, who is ill in intensive care with cystic fibrosis. We wish you well brother and hope for the best. Take care and see you all soon! –barnes http://www.sfu420.com/ THE RED CHORD another studio update! We know it's been a long time but the record is finally done. Thank you all for being so patient. Artwork is being handled by Paul Romano (Mastodon, Nasum) and the record will hit stores on May 17th. We're extremely excited to see how everyone is going to react to the Clients disc. We'll be putting up a new track in the upcoming weeks and possibly recording a video for the track 'Lay the Tarp' sometime in Feb/March. It's a very different album than Fused Together in Revolving Doors. I personally think it's a lot heavier and angrier, but we'll let you judge for yourself. Thanks to Zeuss for pushing us in the studio and extra special thanks to Nate from Premonitions of War/Dead Water Drowning for coming out and doing some guest vocals. In March we will be doing a short run of the Northeast and shortly after that heading over to Japan for a festival. Then on April 1st we will be embarking on our 2 month run with Bury Your Dead, A Life Once Lost and If Hope Dies across the US and Canada. Check out some dates in the tour section. We are going to start working on a new site very soon. We will be putting up a new web store with access to pay pal and all that junk. Shirts have been pretty much sold out for now. *Live photo by Wade Gosselin http://www.theredchord.com UNEARTH new video to premier on Headbangers Ball! Unearth's brand new video for "Zombie Autopilot" will be premiering on Headbangers Ball this Saturday (2/12) so make sure to tune in and check it out! The bands current tour with Atreyu and Norma Jean just kicked off on Tuesday, Feb 8 and played two nights in a row at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA to sold out crowds both nights! UNEARTH confirmed for New England Metal Fest “We are one of the headliners for this year’s New England Metal and Hardcore Fest. We will hit the stage as main support for Hatebreed on Friday night April 22nd. Other bands playing that night will be the mighty Obituary, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, Throwdown, Since the Flood and many others. We are happy to announce our first ever trip to Japan and Australia. We have always wanted to make this trek and it is finally going to happen in April and May. We will be touring alongside Atreyu and Norma Jean. Dates are available on our shows page.” *Live photo by Sean Cowie at Metal-Rules.com http://www.unearth.tv NEAERA re-launch website! Hey people! The new site is finally online! Quite a lot has happened during our time of “absence” from the web, so to keep you all informed, we have a little news update for you... But first we wanna say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us on whichever way on our Austria tour! Thanks so much to all the people who attended our shows, the bands we played with and to the people who organized the concerts, especially Flo, Chris, Geri and Pat of Burning Season Records and Manuel. We are really grateful for the whole experience, it was simply awesome and we'll be back! Some very special thanks go out to our brothers of DEVIL ATE MY SON, whom we had the privilege of playing with. If you like metal and you haven't checked them out yet, you better make pretty danm sure you do, because not only are they a very special and awesome bunch of people, but they also kick some SERIOUS ASS!!! Another big thank you goes out to everybody who attended our show at the Tommy-Weißbecker-Haus in Berlin; you guys really made that place burn! Thanks also to Justin and Adam of GRAF ORLOCK and to Thomas Respondek for organizing the whole thing. Our debut album is now ready, and we are more than satisfied with the final result. Thanks to Mr. Andy Classen for everything, but most of all for the patience he had with us! We hope all of you are going to enjoy the record. “The Rising Tide of Oblivion” will be available from the 21st of March at your local metal dealer! To give you a little foretaste of what you can expect, we have put one track, “The World Devourers”, in the media section for you to check out. It was a bit difficult to choose one song to “represent” the whole album, especially because the other twelve tracks are all very different from each other. The track we chose has a little bit of everything in it, so we thought it comes closest of all to giving a kind of “overview” of the record...but you’re going to be able to make up your own minds pretty soon! We have some more shows planned; we will definitely keep you updated on those! Metal!!!! http://www.neaera.com/ VEHEMENCE announces new vocalist! Vehemence would like to thank all the people that have submitted vocal try-outs and it is greatly appreciated! At this time we would like to announce that our new vocalist is Sean Vandegrift, former vocalist for From A Second Story Window (Blackmarket Activities/ Metal Blade). We are excited as to what he will bring to Vehemence, and what the future holds in store. Catch Sean's debut with Vehemence on a U.S. tour with Crematorium, The Red Death, and Losa starting this April. We also have a west coast America run in March with Thine Eyes Bleed (The End Records), with temporary vocalist Bryan Edwards from Clifton, helping us out before Sean gets settled in. A complete list of tour dates will be up very soon so check back at our website to see when we'll be in your town. Confirmed dates for most of the upcoming tours are available on our tours & shows page. Vehemence has been added to the line-up for this years Arizona Metal Devastation Fest in Phoenix, AZ. The two-day festival will take place April 8th and 9th at the Brickhouse in downtown Phoenix. Vehemence will be sharing the stage with Dying Fetus, Phobia, The Meatshits and more. Also appearing at the fest are Hirax, Repulsion, Impales and more. For more info or to order tickets click here. http://www.vehemence.com news update: PARIA home from tour! We just returned home from our month long tour with Into the Moat yesterday. We had a blast with those guys. They are an amazing band and great guys. Check them out if you get a chance. Radiation 4 was on the tour for a few days as well. If you are into some crazy experimental stuff check them out. P.S. I left my System Failure hat somewhere, if you find it please email me dustin.analog.paria@gmail.com. Thanks. Our tour dates with Nodes of Ranvier, The Esoteric, and The Burning Season are up on our site and the tour is nearly completely booked. There are other dates up as well including a few shows in Lincoln, NE and Minneapolis, MN. http://www.pariamusic.com news update: IF HOPE DIES recap tour with Zao! Well first off we want to let everyone know about the upcoming tour with The Red Chord, A Life Once Lost, and Bury Your Dead...The tour takes off in April and runs for 2 months... see ya on the road. Anyway we just finished up our dates with Zao, FBTMOF and The Agony Scene. Those bands were amazing and the tour was as well. So we're home for like 4 days and then we head off for the It Dies Today tour. Should be a great time. Later gator, IHD http://www.ifhopedies.com LATEST INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS: Unearth live show review up on Metal-Rules.com YOB review of The Illusion of Motion on Maelstrom.nu Paria review of Misanthropos on Maelstrom.nu Impious & God Dethroned reviews up on Metal-Exiles.com METAL BLADE WANTS YOU! We now have an abundance of Six Feet Under postcards and posters for their new album "13" and The Red Chord postcards/posters for their forthcoming album "Clients'. Metal Blade is looking for dedicated metal fans to pass out postcards/posters to help promote these releases 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/THE RED CHORD Street Team". Send pictures of yourself handing out postcards/posters and we will send you a free goods!! Serious inquiries only please! CONTESTS: Metal Blade Records, UNEARTH and HotTopic.com 60gig iPod giveaway! Metal Blade Records & Unearth have teamed up with HotTopic.com to give away a new touch wheel 60gig Apple iPod, a copy of the “The Oncoming Storm” with bonus material, and a limited edition t-shirt to one lucky winner! For more information, contest rules, and to enter click HERE and good luck! http://www.unearth.tv/ =========================================== Metal Blade Records and MetalEater.com contest! You want heavy? Dutch death metallers GOD DETHRONED have just unleashed their most brutal offering to date, "The Lair Of The White Worm", and METALEATER.COM is giving away this jewel to three lucky metalheads, courtesy of Metal Blade Records. Each of the three winners will receive a Limited Edition Digipak version of the album (includes a bonus DVD). As the band themselves write on their official website, "'The Lair Of The White Worm' is an album that shows a renewed band on a much higher level than the highly acclaimed 'Into The Lungs Of Hell' album. The songs are more extreme in two ways; more intense melodies and more brutality at the same time. The idea of the title of the album is based on Bram Stoker's book of the same name. It's a quite unknown story and it was fun to use it for our new album." Don't miss out on your chance to win this killer CD! You must fill out the entire entry form below to be entered into this contest. If you do not complete the form, your name will not be entered in the draw. Please be advised that all information you submit will be kept in strict confidence. For more information on our privacy policy, go here. 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Please tell us which album you'd like, or don't, we'll just send you something based on how quickly you win. You can also give us an order of preference. Good luck! ENTRY FORM located HERE Music Choice's Last Rites: This week's featured MB artists on Music Choice's Last Rites are Cannibal Corpse, God Dethroned, The Crown, & Six Feet Under. 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!!! The store is constantly being updated with CD’s, LP’s, cassettes, and more! http://www.stores.ebay.com/metalbladerecordsstore RELEASE SCHEDULE: Updates in BOLD 1/25 God Dethroned – Lair of the White Word – CD 2/8 Metal Blade video comp - Digital Video Devastation - DVD 2/22 Since the Flood – Valor And Vengeance – CD 3/8 Winter Solstice – The Fall of Rome – CD 3/8 Into The Moat – The Design – CD 3/8 Unearth – The Oncoming Storm – CD with new bonus tracks 3/22 Six Feet Under – 13 – CD 4/5 Brainstorm – Liquid Monster – CD 4/5 Neaera – The Rising Tide of Oblivion – CD 4/19 Born From Pain – In Love With The End – CD 4/19 The Red Death – Aftertaste of the Emaciated – CD 5/3 Jacobs Dream – Drama of Ages – CD 5/3 LOSA – The Perfect Moment – CD 5/3 Falconer – Grime Vs. Grandeur – CD 5/17 The Red Chord – Clients – CD NEW MP3’s CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON www.metalblade.com Six Feet Under – 13 - Shadow Of The Reaper - NEW Losa – The Perfect Moment – Unsuspecting Mind - NEW Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness – The Golden Spiral - NEW God Dethroned – Lair of the White Worm – Sigma Enigma - NEW Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns – An Ancient Sign of Coming Storm Cataract – With Triumph Comes Loss – Nothings Left Unearth – The Oncoming Storm – The Great Dividers Fates Warning – FWX – Simple Human Impious – Hellucinate – Hellucinations TOUR UPDATE: UNEARTH Tour w/ Atreyu, Norma Jean and Scars of Tomorrow 2/10 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues Vegas 2/11 Tucson, AZ The Rock 2/12 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre 2/13 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre 2/14 Dallas, TX Trees 2/15 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit 2/16 Houston, TX The Meridian 2/18 Covington, KY Madison Theatre 2/19 Winston-Salem, NC Ziggy’s 2/20 Atlanta, GA Masquerade 2/21 Tallahassee, FL Beta Bar 2/22 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues Orlando 2/23 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution 2/25 Norfolk, VA Norva Theatre 2/26 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place 2/27 Asbury Park, NJ Asbury Park Convention Center 2/28 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero 3/01 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 3/02 New York, NY Spirit Performance Center 3/04 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall 3/05 Worcester, MA Palladium 3/07 Montreal, QC Spectrum 3/08 Ottawa, ON Capital Music Hall 3/09 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre 3/10 Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargos 3/11 Louisville, KY Headliners 3/12 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room 3/13 Chicago, IL House of Blues 3/15 Cleveland, OH House of Blues 3/16 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Club 3/17 Minneapolis, MN Quest Club 3/18 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre 3/19 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre 3/20 Salt Lake City, UT Lo-Fi Café 3/21 Boise, ID The Venue 3/22 Seattle, WA El Corazon (formerly Graceland) 3/23 Portland, OR Meow Meow 3/24 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore 3/25 Sacramento, CA Colonial Theatre 3/26 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst 3/29 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues Sunset Strip THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Tour w/ Suffocation, Behemoth and CATTLE DECAPITATION 2/10 Minneapolis, MN Ascot Room 2/11 Sauget, IL Pop’s 2/12 Detroit, MI Alvin’s 2/13 Chicago, IL House of Blues 2/14 Cleveland, OH House of Blues Tour w/ KING DIAMOND, Nile and Behemoth 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 4/21 Baltimore, MD Fletchers The Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth and Misery Index only 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 5/01 Omaha, NE Ranch Bowl 5/02 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre 5/03 Salt Lake City, UT Lo-Fi Cafe 5/04 Boise, ID JD and Friends 5/05 Seattle, WA Fenix Underground 5/06 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre 5/07 San Francisco, CA The Pound 5/08 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues Sunset Strip 5/09 Anaheim, CA House of Blues Anaheim 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 5/15 McAllen, TX La Villa Real 5/16 Corpus Christi, TX El Palacio Ballroom 5/17 Dallas, TX Gypsy Ballroom 5/18 Houston, TX Engine Room 5/20 New Orleans, LA House of Blues 5/21 Tampa, FL Masquerade CATTLE DECAPITATION Tour w/ Suffocation and Behemoth 2/10 Minneapolis, MN Ascot Room w/ THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 2/11 Sauget, IL Pop’s w/ THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 2/12 Detroit, MI Alvin’s w/ THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 2/13 Chicago, IL House of Blues w/ THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 2/14 Cleveland, OH House of Blues w/ THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Tour w/ Misery Index 2/15 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero 2/16 New York, NY BB King’s Blues Club 2/17 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre 2/18 Worcester, MA Palladium 2/19 Latham, NY Saratoga Winners Tour w/ Cryptopsy 2/20 Bucksport, ME The Kave 2/23 Farmingdale, NY Downtown 2/24 Springfield, VA Jaxx 2/25 Fayetteville, NC Jester’s Pub 2/26 Nashville, TN Exit Inn 2/27 Atlanta, GA Masquerade 2/28 Jacksonville, FL Thee Imperial 3/01 Tampa, FL Masquerade 3/02 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room 3/04 Houston, TX Fat Cat’s 3/05 Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Live 3/06 Dallas, TX Gypsy Tea Room 3/07 San Antonio, TX Sanctuary 3/08 Albuquerque, NM Launch Pad 3/09 Tucson, AZ The Rock 3/10 Phoenix, AZ Mason Jar 3/11 Santa Ana, CA Galaxy Theatre 3/13 Los Angeles, CA Key Club 3/14 San Francisco, CA The Pound 3/15 Portland, OR Meow Meow 3/16 Seattle, WA Studio Seven 3/18 Denver, CO Rock Island 3/19 Fort Collins, CO Starlight not part of tour 3/23 St. Paul, MN Station 4 3/24 Sauget, IL Pop’s 3/28 Baltimore, MD Sidebar 3/29 Pittsburgh, PA Rex Theatre 3/30 Rochester, NY Penny Arcade 3/31 Hagerstown, MD Wilson Ruritan 4/01 Poughkeepsie, NY The Loft 4/03 Frostburg, MD The Beegle 4/08 Tijuana, Mexico Voodoo House 4/09 Anaheim, CA Chain Reaction THE RED CHORD Mini tour w/ ED GEIN 3/02 Hamden, CT The Elks Lodge 3/03 Lancaster, PA American Legion Hall 3/04 Middletown. NY Club NY 3/05 Fredericksburg, VA KC’s 3/06 Port Jefferson, NY Club Vegas Co-Headlining tour w/ Bury Your Dead: also playing A Life Once Lost and IF HOPE DIES 4/01 Lemoyne, PA Champion Ship 4/04 Jacksonville, FL Thee Imperial 4/05 Miami, FL The Alley 4/07 Orlando, FL Back Booth 4/08 Tampa, FL The Orpheum 4/09 Tallahassee, FL Big Daddy’s 4/10 Baton Rouge, FL The Darkroom 4/11 Little Rock, AR Vino’s 4/12 Memphis, TN The Complex 4/20 Wilkes-Barre, PA C post was too long read more at your own risk |