Metal Update! 1/30/2004[views:7782][posts:3]______________________________________ [Jan 30,2004 1:15pm - the_reverend ""] I highly suggest that everyone sign up and get the news in your box first. --------- METAL UPDATE --------- -- http://www.metalupdate.com -- The Metal Update will deliver a weekly report to your email inbox. To sign up, go to MetalUpdate.com and click the SUBSCRIBE! link. The Metal Update is free. This week's Metal Update went out to over 14,200 subscribers. -- NEWS -- WINDIR the Norwegian band’s vocalist, Terje ”Valfar” Bakken, was found dead on January 17 as the result of hypothermia - Terje was on his way to the family cabin when he succumbed to cold weather and deep snow DIMMU BORGIR Nick Barker (Cradle Of Filth, Lock Up) has parted ways with the band – the official statement from Dimmu is as follows: “Nicholas has been removed from the line up of Dimmu Borgir. A session drummer will be used in the future. Don't waste your time speculating why, we have already moved on. See you on the road very soon!” ENTOMBED bassist Jörgen Sandström (Grave, The Project Hate, Krux, Vicious Art) has left the band – his replacement is Nico Engelstrand (Terra Firma) SINGLE BULLET THEORY Matt Thompson (King Diamond) will be playing drums on the new SBT disc - at the present time, it is unclear whether Matt will join SBT as a full-fledged member POWER OF OMENS Derron Bell has replaced original drummer Alex Arellano – original vocalist Chris Salinas has returned to the group - the band is currently writing new material SHRINE OF SCARS bass player Mike Francis has returned to the fold SKID ROW drummer Tim DiDuro has replaced Phil Varone DROWNING POOL Jason "Gong" Jones has been selected by the band as their new singer TONY IOMMI black-sabbath.com reports that Tony Iommi intends to release what's commonly known as the "Eighth Star Bootleg” - this material was recorded back in 1996 for what was then to be Tony Iommi's first official solo album – the recording features performances by: vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath), keyboardist Don Airey (Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple) and drummer Dave Holland (Judas Priest) MAIDEN NEW YORK Iron Maiden’s highly anticipated string of dates in New York City was plagued by misfortune: last Saturday’s show was cut short after a fan threw a beer which landed on the soundboard and Tuesday’s show was cancelled due to an error in the confirmation of the venue between the promoter and the venue NEW SIGNINGS Willowtip Records: Vulgar Pigeons Osmose Productions: Hacavitz Metal Age Productions: Avulsed Galy Records: Infernal Majesty Listenable Records: Textures Sleaszy Rider Records: Kinetic Displeased Records: Incriminated, Bazzah -- HELP WANTED -- VOCALIST & BASSIST wanted - Brooklyn NY death band Black Adder seeks vox and bass - must be very versatile and can learn technical music - please have experience, good learning skills, great stage presence and ability to write killer music – influences: Morbid Angel, Cryptopsy, Candiria, Dying Fetus, Children Of Bodom – contact: Godbox34@aol.com DRUMMER wanted – Sweden’s Immersed In Blood seeks drummer - currently writing new material for next full length for Arctic Music/Frozen North - brutal death metal – contact: info@immersedinblood.net GUITARIST wanted - melodic thrash/death metal band in the chicagoland area seeks lead guitarist – must be highly talented player w/ stage and studio experience – ages are 17-22 - contact: MusiclivsnAutumn@cs.com BASSIST available – NYC bassist seeks to form an "Old School" death/thrash band in the true drunken spirit of Tankard, Pestilence, Thanatos, Bloodfeast, Early Sepultura, Carnage, Dismember - band doesn’t have to be serious - drink, record some demos, drink, play some shows and drink – contact: AsPredatorToPrey@aol.com VOCALIST/DRUMMER available - seeking San Francisco / Bay Area musicians to start death metal band – drum influences: Nevermore, Dying Fetus, Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Slayer, Cryptopsy – vox influences: Vader, Cannibal Corpse, Death, SYL, Pantera, Morbid Angel, Animosity – contact: greenironfist54@hotmail.com -- FEATURES -- THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewtbdm.html Despite the fact that The Black Dahlia Murder have short hair, are still fairly young and cater heavily to a metalcore audience, it's clear that death metal is their ultimate love. After their debut full-length 'Unhallowed', any other categorizations should be thrown out the window. Metal Update had a chat with vocalist Trevor Strnad about the recent turmoil within the band, where they fall on the musical map and a whole lot of metal. . . .and in case you missed these recent features: Probot http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewprobot.html Chimaira http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewchimaira.html 2003: The Year In Metal http://www.metalupdate.com/yir2003.html -- REVIEWS -- - METAL JUDGMENT - http://www.metaljudgment.com Probot (Abyss, Death, Hel) http://www.metaljudgment.com/albums/probot_frames.html Glass Casket 'We Are Gathered Here Today. . .' (Abyss, Death, Hel) http://www.metaljudgment.com/albums/gc_frames.html The Quill 'Hooray! It's A Deathtrip' (Requiem) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/quillhooray_frames.html Scars of Tomorrow 'Rope Tied To The Trigger' (Jotun) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/sot_frames.html Helvis ''Reverence The Sacrifice' (Slither) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/helvis_frames.html Setherial 'Endtime Divine' (Behemoth) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/setherial_frames.html Greenleaf 'Secret Alphabets' (Ember) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/greenleaf_frames.html No Retreat 'Pray For Peace' (Blind) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/noretreat_frames.html School for Heroes 'Listen' (Redwolff) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/sfh_frames.html Leng Tch'e 'Man Made Predator' (Sabbath) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/lengtche_frames.html Kabbal 'Synthetically Revived' (Lugubrious) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/kabbal_frames.html Judas Priest 'Electric Eye' - DVD (Death) http://www.metaljudgment.com/summary/priesteedvd_frames.html Cradle of Filth 'Dusk And Her Embrace' - Classic (Kefka X) http://www.metaljudgment.com/classics/cofdusk_frames.html Hypnotheticall - Demo (Metal Militia) http://www.metaljudgment.com/demos/hypno_frames.html -- NEW RELEASES -- 1/19 - Drudkh - Autumn Aurora 1/13 - Deceased - Rotten To The Core 1/19 - Marduk - Funeral Marches And Warsongs (DVD) 1/20 - Facebreaker - Bloodred Hell 1/26 - Blood Duster 1/26 - Axxis - Time Machine 1/26 - Dimmu Borgir /Old Man's Child - Sons of Satan... 1/26 - Septic Flesh - Sumerian Daemons 1/26 - Nile - In The Beginning 1/26 - Attacker - Soul Taker 1/26 - Farmer Boys - The Other Side 1/26 - The Gathering - Sleepy Buildings 1/26 - Watch Them Die 1/26 - Divine Empire - Nostradamus 1/26 - In The Eyes Of Death #4 1/26 - Macabre Minstrels - Morbid Campfire Songs 1/26 - Visual Rebellion (DVD) 1/26 - Dismember - Hate / Kill / Live (DVD) 1/27 - Force Of Evil 1/27 - Spiritus Mortis 1/27 - The Kiss Of Death 1/27 - Pig Destroyer - Splits 1/27 - Fantomas - Delirium Cordia 1/27 - Pyrexia - Cruelty Beyond Submission 1/27 - Fall Of The Bastards - Dusk Of An Ancient Age 1/27 - Gorerotted - Only Tools And Corpses 1/27 - Shining Fury - Last Sunrise 1/27 - Symphorce - Twice Second 1/27 - Stampin' Ground - A New Darkness Upon Us 1/27 - Deathwitch - Violence, Blasphemy, Sodomy 1/27 - Dimension Zero - Penetrations From The Lost World 1/27 - Organic Infest - The Way To Temptation 1/27 - Vesania - Firefrost Arcanum 1/27 - Pyrexia - Cruelty Beyond Submission 1/27 - Bayside - Sirens And Condolences 1/27 - Hanoi Rocks - Twelve Shots On The Rocks 1/27 - Premonitions of War - Left In Kowloon 1/27 - Secret Heroes - Loose, High & Free 1/27 - Hammerfall - One Crimson Night 1/27 - Immolation - Bringing Down The World (DVD) 1/27 - Monsters Of Metal Vol. 1 (DVD) 1/27 - Relapse Records - Contamination Festival (DVD) 1/30 - Elite - Kampen 1/31 - Tyranny - Bleak Vistae 1/31 - Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express 2/02 - Probot 2/02 - Edguy - King Of Fools 2/02 - Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned 2/02 - Veneficum - Enigma Prognosis 2/03 - Gadget - Remote 2/04 - Leviathan - The Tentacles Of Whorror 2/06 - Atomizer - The Only Weapon Of Choice 2/09 - Destiny - Future Of The Past 2/09 - Raunchy - Confusion Bay 2/09 - Decapitated - Negation 2/09 - Morifade - Domi<>nation 2/09 - Nordic Metal - Tribute To Euronymous 2/10 - Byzantine 2/10 - Bang The Union - American Dream 2/10 - Thunderstone - The Burning 2/10 - Deathwitch - Violence, Blasphemy, Sodomy 2/10 - Damageplan - New Found Power 2/10 - Fragments Of Unbecoming – Skyward... 2/10 - Eidolon - Apostles Of Defiance 2/10 - Necronomicon- The Sacred Medicines 2/10 - Abaddon Incarnate - Nadir 2/10 - Mourning Beloveth - Dust 2/10 - Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion 2/10 - Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi 2/10 - Crash Music - Death To An Extreme 2/13 - Necrophagia - Goblins Be Thine 2/14 - The Eagles Of Death Metal - Peace, Love... 2/16 - Hypocrisy - The Arrival 2/16 - Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby! 2/16 - Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur 2/16 - Primal Fear - Metal Is Forever (single) 2/16 - Dokken - Dokken: Japan Live '95 (DVD) 2/17 - Three Inches Of Blood – Battlecry. . . 2/17 - Age Of Ruin - Black Sands Of The Hourglass 2/21 - To Elysium - Nightmare's Nest 2/21 - The Wounded - Atlantic -- IN PRINT -- PIT MAGAZINE http://www.pitmagazine.com/CurrentIssue.htm issue #45 is out now featuring: Dimmu Borgir, The Crown, Arch Enemy, Ackercocke, Dying Fetus, All Out War, Monstrosity, Sepsism, Sepultura, Destruction, Morbid Angel, Pissing Razors, Zyklon NEGURA MAGAZINE http://www.negura.com issue #4 is out now featuring: Primordial, The Kovenant, Tormentor, Limbonic Art, Thunderbolt, Obtest, Aghora, Manes, Enid, Void of Silence, Trollech, Meridian, Ordo Draconis, Astray, Akerbeltz, Abyssic Hate, Spite Extreme Wing, free compilation CD -- ON THE NET -- VAMPIRE MAGAZINE http://www.vampire-magazine.com new interviews: Akercocke, Amon Amarth, Anathema, Argath, Bathtub Shitter, Cage, Collision, Empty, Equinox, Invocator, Kekal, Lumsk, Messiah, Nefas, Nightward, Nocturnal, Opeth, Regurgitate, The Quill, Torture Killer, Verderf, Vesania, Wolverine PIVOTAL RAGE http://www.pivotalrage.com new interviews: Crotchduster, In Reverent Fear, Scarve, Avenged Sevenfold, 3 Inches of Blood, Beautiful Creatures TARTAREAN DESIRE http://www.tartareandesire.com new interviews: Impaled Nazarene, Musta Surma, Cadaveria, Terrorama, Wuthering Heights AURAL MUSIC http://www.auralmusic.com Aural Music, the new Mother Company for code666, Dreamcell11, GoreGorecords and Amaranth Recordings, has launched its official website -- TOUR DATES -- (dates are subject to change - check local listings) CONTAMINATION TOUR 2004 High On Fire, Zeke, Dysrhythmia, The End 3/12 Salt Lake City, UT 3/13 Denver, CO 3/15 Oklahoma City, OK 3/16 Austin, TX 3/17 Fort Worth, TX 3/18 Austin, TX (SXSW Showcase) 3/19 Houston, TX 3/20 San Antonio, TX 3/21 El Paso, TX 3/22 Albuquerque, NM (Dysrhythmia only) 3/23 Tucson, AZ 3/24 TBA 3/25 Hollywood, CA 3/26 San Diego, CA 3/27 Long Beach, CA 3/28 San Francisco, CA CRISIS 2/20 San Francisco, CA 2/21 Ukiah, CA 2/22 Portland, OR 2/23 Seattle, WA 2/24 Eugene, OR 2/25 Arcata, CA 2/27 Salt Lake City, UT GOD FORBID w/ WALLS OF JERICHO & BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED 2/25 Albany, NY 2/26 Danbury, CT 2/27 New York, NY 2/28 Farmingdale, NY 3/01 Cleveland, OH 3/02 Pittsburgh, PA 3/03 Baltimore, MD 3/04 Worcester, MA 3/05 Rochester, NY 3/06 Montreal, QB 3/08 Cleveland, OH LIFE OF AGONY w/ FLAW & APARTMENT 26 1/30 Columbus, OH 1/31 Cincinnati, OH 2/02 Cleveland, OH 2/04 Grand Rapids, MI 2/05 Chicago, IL 2/06 Detroit, MI 2/07 Milwaukee, MN 2/08 Minneapolis, MN 2/10 Lincoln, NE 2/11 St. Louis, MO 2/13 Oklahoma City, OK 2/14 Dallas, TX (w/ Sevendust, Ill Nino) 2/25 San Antonio, TX (w/ Sevendust, Ill Nino) 2/17 Atlanta, GA 2/18 Fayetteville, NC 2/20 Norfolk, VA 2/21 Buffalo, NY (no Flaw) 2/22 Syracuse, NY (no Flaw) 2/23 Toronto, Canada 2/25 Orono, ME 2/27 Manchester, NH 2/28 Attleboro, MA SIX FEET UNDER w/ FULL BLOWN CHAOS 1/31 High Point, NC 2/01 Woodbridge, VA 2/02 New York City, NY 2/03 Bucksport, ME 2/04 Hartford, CT 2/05 Virginia Beach, VA 2/06 Stroudsburg, PA (w/ Bile) 2/07 Towson, MD (w/ Reflux) 2/08 Niles, IN 2/09 Davenport, IA 2/10 Omaha, NE 2/11 Denver, CO 2/13 Dallas, TX 2/14 Houston, TX (w/ Reflux) 2/15 Little Rock, AR (w/ Reflux) 2/16 Memphis, TN (w/ Reflux) 2/17 Louisville, KY (w/ Reflux) 2/18 Roanoke, VA (w/ Reflux) 2/19 Atlanta, GA (w/ Reflux) CLASSIC METAL FESTIVAL http://www.metal-music-foundation.com 5/13 - 5/15 -- Lansing, IL Deceased, Solitude Aeturnus, Hirax, Attacker, The Raff, Destructor, Impaler, Premonition, Tyrant's Reign, Iron Cross, October 31, Magus Beast, Desecrator, Alchemy X, Suburban Funeral, Division, Ravensthorn, Wretch, Black Widow, Leviathan, Celestial Dawn, Stonehenge SUN N STEEL FESTIVAL http://www.metalfest.com 3/06 - 3/07 -- Tampa, FL Agent Steel, Arcadio, Black Widow, Body Count, Brutality, Chronozon, Conquest, Dark Shift, Divine Empire, End Unseen, Equinox, Ion Sift, Iron Cross, Jag Panzer, John Oliva, Laceration, Left In Ashes, Macabre, Metal Militia, Meth Sessions, M.O.D., Neomortem, Noctuary, October 31, Premonition, Premonitions Of War, Raven, Rob Rock, Seven Witches. 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__________________________________ [Jan 30,2004 1:26pm - Kalopsia ""] it's official. nick barker is out. it actually shouldn't be too much of a suprise since black metal bands change members like they change socks |
____________________________________ [Jan 30,2004 3:08pm - MyDeadDoll ""] i like that they added "don't waste your time speculating why." makes me curious though.... |
_______________________________________ [Jan 30,2004 6:21pm - DeOdiumMortis ""] That's like saying "don't look in my underwear drawer." Now everyone wants to. By the way their statement sounded, they're "too good" for him and kicked him out, probably because they think he's not as pretty as them and wouldn't look good on the Dimmu collector's cups from Wendy's. They'll probably get Nascar driver Randy Wallace instead. (someone better get that one..) |