Metal Blade News 6/23/2004[views:8080][posts:1]_______________________________________ [Jun 24,2004 12:41am - the_reverend ""] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UNEARTH Update from Trevor: "We want to thank everyone who came down to see us play at the sold out show in Camden (UK) at the Barfly last Saturday night. The show was unreal. From the second we started to the end of our set the crowd never stopped moving and singing along. We were blown away at the energy of the crowd and the fact that people traveled from all over Europe to come see us. Thanks again for making our trip an awesome one. A return visit to the UK and Europe is already in the works, so stay tuned for info. We are stoked to be getting geared up for Ozzfest this summer, but first we will be appearing as guests on Headbanger's Ball this Saturday night with special host Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell. The Ball will be debuting our new video for "The Great Dividers" as well "Black Hearts Now Reign". We are sure Dime has something in store for us, so make sure ya'll tune in. Newbury Comics will be treating some lucky kids to free tickets for the CD release show on July 2nd. Stop in at any of the following Newbury Comics stores for your chance to see Unearth free of charge. Newbury Comics - Shrewsbury, MA Newbury Comics - Leominster, MA Newbury Comics - Natick, MA Newbury Comics - Bellingham, MA Newbury Comics - North Attleboro, MA Supplies are limited so get off of your ass! We also have a street team sign up form located in the contact section for all you nice kids who want to help out by promoting Unearth and the new album." **If you live in the Philadelphia are tune into 94.1 FM WYSP's "Exposed" show with host Spike this Sunday night to hear an interview with Unearth! **Unearth will be doing an in-store appearance (no performance, just a signing) at Magnolia Thunderpussy in Columbus, Ohio on Monday, 7/19 with Every Time I Die at a "Pre-Ozzfest Bash"! Magnolia Thunderpussy Records 1155 North High Street Columbus OH 43201 Ph: (614) 421-1512 Fax: (614) 421-1511 http://www.unearth.tv/ THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Update from Trevor: "The A Cold-Blooded Epitaph re-release is nearing completion, and should be available in the next couple of months. Black Market Activities' own Adam Wentworth is again handling the artwork. Our most recent BDM news: drummer Cory Grady has been asked to leave the band due to personal and professional conflicts. Cory has been in the band since its inception, and it was not an easy decision on our part. The good news is, we are honored to welcome Zach Gibson to the throne, and can assure you that you will be seeing us on our summer tour with the mighty Cannibal Corpse. We will spend four weeks as direct support for Cannibal, with Severed Savior opening; following will be a two-week headlining stint with Cattle Decapitation and Goatwhore, respectively." **photo by Aaron Pepelis of http://returntothepit.com http://www.theblackdahliamurder.com AMON AMARTH Studio Report from Johan: "The new album is now completed, and a total of eight tracks were successfully recorded. We're currently preparing for the upcoming Rock The Nation Festival in Istanbul on July 3rd-4th. After that we'll take a well-deserved vacation from music before we start preparing for Wacken Open Air. We wish all our friends a great summer, and we'll see all of you on tour in Autumn/Winter. Cheers!" http://www.amonamarth.com THE CROWN'S Crowned Unholy DVD information revealed! Here's some more info about the Crowned Unholy release by THE CROWN - to hit the market on August 10th! Read carefully As you know by now, Crowned Unholy is a remake of the bands fifth album Crowned In Terror with re-recorded vocal tracks by Johan, re-recorded bass tracks by Magnus, a new version of the intro (originally written by Marko, now programmed by Janne), drum sound digitally enhanced by Janne, and cool synthesizer-spiced parts here and there, all programmed by Janne. Crowned Unholy will be released with a free bonus DVD entitled THE CROWN INVADES KARLSRUHE. The bonus DVD is a full live show filmed professionally on their last tour when The Crown played Karlsruhe, Germany on the 24th of November 2003. Here you have the track list of that particular show: 1. No Tomorrow 2. Face of destruction/Deep hit of death 3. Deathexplosion 4. World below 5. Deliverance 6. Blitzkrieg Witchcraft 7. Cold is the grave 8. Zombiefied 9. Dream bloody hell / Kill `em all 10. Under the whip 11. Bow to none 12. Total Satan 13. House of Hades / Crowned in terror 14. 1999-Revolution 666 This is a very intense live show. You will have to wipe the sweat flowing down your TV screen after the DVD ceases to spin in your player! http://www.thecrownonline.com/ GOD DETHRONED studio update! Dutch death metallers GOD DETHRONED will enter Berno Studios in Malmö, Sweden on July 14 to begin recording the follow-up to 2003's Into the Lungs of Hell. Nine new songs are ready to be laid down for the as-yet-untitled effort, which is tentatively due in late 2004/early 2005. In other news, GOD DETHRONED, who recently replaced bassist Beef with a musician named Henk, have been confirmed for the Occult Fest 2004, a two-day event set to take place September 3-4 in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands. Other bands scheduled to appear at the festival include PLEURISY, MORTUARY IOD, KATAFALK, MAKILADORAS, AS IT BURNS and MORNING. More info: http://www.occultfest.nl/ http://www.goddethroned.com/ Hellfest Vol. III DVD! Unearth, The Red Chord, Ed Gein (BMA), and Found Dead Hanging (BMA) will be featured on the upcoming Hellfest Vol. III DVD. The DVD includes live footage of many of the best bands to play Hellfest 2003, interviews with bands and fans, Hellfest highlights, trailers and teasers. Hellfest Vol. III hit stores July 13th. Pre-order the Hellfest Vol. III DVD for $15 at RadioTakeOver.com To view the DVD trailer click here. http://www.unearth.tv/ & http://www.blackmarketactivities.com/ Vote for AS I LAY DYING'S 94 Hours & SIX FEET UNDER'S Amerika The Brutal on Headbangers Ball! Vote for As I Lay Dying's "94 Hours" and Six Feet Under's "Amerika the Brutal" as one of the Best Videos of the New Millennium (so far) on the Headbanger's Ball website by clicking here. BRAINSTORM Road update from Todde: "Hi Brainstorm-Maniacs! After many years of (b)rainless BS-Open Air concerts, our gig at the Rock Harz festival last week-end saw us in the middle of a cloudburst at the beginning of our set! But the heavy shower was conquered by another heavy neck breaking Brainstorm Show. We had shitloads of fun and if I remember right, all of you BS-maniacs joining us at the show had lots of fun, too. What's coming up next? Well, I don't want to promise too much, but if all works out, we will have some more very interesting Brainstorm-Live-Action coming up the next weeks. Stay tuned and stay metal!" http://www.truemetal.org/brainstorm Blue Oyster Cult: Secrets Revealed! By Martin Popoff (200p., Metal Blade Records, ISBN 022334435-4) Blue Oyster Cult - 35 years in the biz... six gold and platinum U.S. albums... classic trax like (Don't Fear) The Reaper, Godzilla, Burnin' For You, Astronomy and E.T.I. Indeed, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Eric Bloom, Allen Lanier, Albert Bouchard and Joe Bouchard comprised one of the great stadium acts of the '70s and '80s. BOC were heavy metal enough to duke it out with Kiss, Rush, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent and Black Sabbath, yet smart, funny, ironic and jaded enough to please the tough New York critics, of which more than a couple mingled within their ranks. Martin Popoff - has written seven books on heavy metal and one on southern rock. He is the Senior Editor of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, and also contributes to Guitar World, Lollipop, Goldmine, Record Collector, Classic Rock, Chart, Brazil's Roadie Crew, bravewords.com, chartattack.com and hardradio.com. Born and raised in Trail, British Columbia, Martin went on to complete an MBA, work for Xerox, then co-own a graphic design and print brokering firm, before becoming a full-time rock critic in 1998, part time since 1994. He currently resides in Toronto. Blue Oyster Cult: Secrets Revealed! - This 200-page book is not a biography as such, but a biography of the band's albums, a canon of work Martin calls one of the finest in rock, and truly superlative on the lyrical front. Indeed, Martin, in radio, print and TV interviews, has consistently called the band's lyrics the best in the business, tied with those of Captain Beefheart and Pye Dubois (Max Webster, Kim Mitchell). The book examines the complicated early days of the band, graphically demonstrating the show biz sweat that goes into making an act an act. The majority of the book however is centred around the peerless intellectual quality of the songs, a quality made entertaining by the band's psychotropic and ghoulish humor, and by its interest in all manner of conspiracy theories, cults, monsters, vampires, UFO tales, foul play, arcane spiritualism, alchemy, love lost and love buried, science fiction and science friction. Along the way, Martin talks (in some cases numerous times) with Buck, Eric, Albert and Joe, along with new drummer Bobby Rondinelli, legendary producer of the band Murray Krugman and BOC expert Bolle Gregmar. For insight into the band's fantastic lyrical world, Martin went right to the source, the penners of BOC classics. Some of the best insights into creativity Martin's ever heard - through 900 interviews as metal's most widely recognized journalist - came from Sandy Pearlman (also the band's manager during the golden years), Richard Meltzer, Helen Wheels, David Roter and John Shirley, along with cover artists Greg Scott and Ioannis. Helen Wheels and David Roter are since deceased; Martin's chats with them are among their last interviews. The result is a "biography" pointedly about what matters the most - the recorded documents, the works, the masterworks. Indeed, each chapter bears the title of a BOC record, because that's what you get in the chapter - detailed, track by track analysis about the music and the lyrics (not to mention some of the personal stuff swirling around the sessions). Blue Oyster Cult: Secrets Revealed! zestfully fulfills the mandate set out by Martin at the onset, a mandate that Martin has always felt to be the mark of a good rock bio - it sends you scampering back to your CDs and LPs for a second and third and fourth, very detailed, listen, one that results in new appreciation for the genius of the artist examined. Martin Popoff Bibliography Riff Kills Man! 25 Years Of Recorded Hard Rock & Heavy Metal (1993) The Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal (1997) Goldmine Heavy Metal Records Price Guide (2000) Heavy Metal: 20th Century Rock And Roll (2000) Southern Rock Review (2001) The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs Of All Time (2003) The Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal - Volume 1: The Seventies (2003) The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time (2004) Blue Oyster Cult Discography (excluding compilations and unofficial live albums) Blue Oyster Cult (1972) Tyranny And Mutation (1973) Secret Treaties (1974) On Your Feet Or On Your Knees (1975; live album) Agents Of Fortune (1976) Spectres (1977) Some Enchanted Evening (1978, live album) Mirrors (1979) Cultosaurus Erectus (1980) Fire Of Unknown Origin (1981) Extraterrestrial Live (1982; live album) The Revolution By Night (1983) Club Ninja (1986) Imaginos (1988) Heaven Forbid (1998) Curse Of The Hidden Mirror (2001) A Long Day's Night (2002; live album) *Contact Martin Popoff through http://www.martinpopoff.com/ or by email at: martinp@inforamp.net. For interviews or additional questions, contact Martin directly. http://www.metalblade.com/ Neal Morse to perform at CalProg Day! Be sure to check out this years CalProg Day in Whittier, CA where Neal Morse will be performing a solo acoustic set and possibly some other surprises! Be sure to get your tickets now as this show will definitely sell out! MIKE KENEALLY BAND ENCHANT IZZ ERIK NORLANDER Special Guest: NEAL MORSE When: Saturday July 3, 2004 Where: Whittier, California Tickets On Sale Now! Please visit the http://www.calprogday.com website for all details. http://nealmorse.com/ CATTLE DECAPITATION: Cattle Decap meet & greet/signing! Cattle Decap will be playing a few songs off of the new album Humanure and will then sit down to sign posters, CD's, or pics. After the signing is over there will be a FREE BBQ for all that attend that will include veggie dogs, veggie burgers, and sodas for everyone! July 13th, 2004 Blue Meannie Records 916 Broadway El Cajon CA, 92021 (619) 440-4449 Time: 2-4pm Cattle Decapitation has announced 2 CD release shows in Southern California! Friday July 16th Soma 3350 Sports Arena Blvd San Diego, CA 92110 619 266 7662 Tickets $10 Doors 7pm With Broken Foundation, Stretcher, Downspell and more! Saturday July 17th Chain Reaction 1652 West Lincoln St Anaheim, CA 92801 714 635 6067 Tickets $10 Coming soon will be a whole overhaul of our site including a whole new look, pics, and intro... stay tuned!!! http://www.cattledecapitation.com/ METAL BLADE WANTS YOU!!!! Metal Blade is looking for dedicated metal and hardcore fans to pass out posters and flyers at local venues and music stores. Your first mission: to empty our warehouse of tons of postcards for the upcoming Strhess Tour with Shadow's Fall, AS I LAY DYING, Himsa, and Remembering Never. If you accept the challenge: 1) Refer to the tour dates below and make note of the tour stop nearest to you. 2) Email your name, address, phone number and nearest tour stop to you to metalblade@metalblade.com. Put in the subject line "STRHESS TOUR STREET TEAM". Serious inquiries only please! Shadows Fall, AS I LAY DYING, Himsa & Remembering Never 7/16 Montreal, QC Rainbow 7/17 Toronto, ON Opera House 7/18 Glen Falls, NY Glen Falls Civic Center Aggressive Music Festival 7/19 Williamsville, NY Infinity 7/21 Wilkes-Barre, PA Wyoming Valley Zoo 7/22 Springfield, VA Jaxx 7/24 Norfolk, VA The Norva 7/26 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbit 7/27 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room 7/28 St. Petersburg, FL State Theatre 7/29 New Orleans, LA House of Blues 7/30 Houston, TX Engine Room 7/31 Austin, TX The Back Room 8/01 Abilene, TX Desperado's 8/03 Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Live 8/05 Albuquerque, NM Launch Pad 8/06 Tucson, AZ The Rock 8/08 Anaheim, CA House of Blues 8/09 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues 8/10 Grand Junction, CO Mesa Theatre 8/13 Clinton, IA Pig Pen 8/15 Cleveland, OH The Scene Pavilion Strhess Fest 8/17 Toledo, OH Headliners 8/18 Erie, PA Forward Hall 8/19 Syracuse, NY The Lost http://www.metalblade.com/ 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 opens up eBay Store! Check out the new 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 CONTESTS: Metal Blade Records and Hot Topic are proud to announce the As I Lay Dying signed guitar give away! As I Lay Dying has jumped into the pit with mastermind guitar builders Fernandes Guitars! They're giving away a top of the line Fernandes Revelle Deluxe, autographed by all the members of As I Lay Dying! This is the exact guitar that Nick plays every night on tour! One Grand Prize Winner Will Receive: One (1) Fernandes Revelle Deluxe Guitar, Autographed By As I Lay Dying Click HERE to enter now! Click HERE to check out the new AS I LAY DYING interview at HOTTOPIC.com Inside Metal and Metal Blade Records presents a CANNIBAL CORPSE contest! Thanks to Metal Blade Records we have 1 signed CANNIBAL CORPSE poster for a special someone and 5 copies of their latest album 'The Wretched Spawn' for the runners up. Winners will be notified after 2 weeks of contest addition. Winners will be asked for their postage details, this will remain completely confidential. Good Luck! Click here to enter. *Available to Visitors Worldwide* http://www.insodemetal.tk http://www.metalblade.com QUICK BITS: **If you want to use MP3's or videos that are featured on the Metal Blade Records site please DOWNLOAD them instead of linking directly to the MB site. Thanks! Now you can get your very own Metal Blade artist Buddy Icon for AOL IM! Icons for As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse, King Diamond, Six Feet Under, Beyond The Embrace, Cattle Decapitation, and UNEARTH are now available for download on the Metal Blade site here. NEW MP3's CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON www.metalblade.com Unearth - The Oncoming Storm - The Great Dividers Beyond The Embrace - Insect Song - Fleshengine Breakdown VoiVod - War and Pain - War and Pain remix The Heavils - Heavilution - Get Behind Me Rival - State of Mind - Tyrants Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn - Severed Head Stoning Vehemence - Helping the World to See - By Your Bedside Six Feet Under - Bringer of Blood - Amerika The Brutal As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse - 94 Hours The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed - Funeral Thirst RELEASE SCHEDULE: 6/15 VoiVod - War and Pain Box Set 3CD's 6/29 Unearth - The Oncoming Storm CD 7/13 Cattle Decapitation - Humanure CD 7/13 Ancient - Night Visit CD 7/13 Incapacity - Ninth Order Extinct CD 7/27 Starwood - If It Ain't Broke, Break It! CD 8/10 Six Feet Under - Live With Full Force CD/DVD 8/10 The Crown - Crowned Unholy CD/DVD 9/7 Amon Amarth - Fate of the Norns CD 9/7 Cataract - With Triumph Comes Loss CD 9/21 Vader - The Beast CD 9/21 King Diamond - T.B.A. - 2 CD's TOUR UPDATE: AS I LAY DYING 7/04 Bushnell, IL Cornerstone Festival Tour with Zao and Haste the Day 7/05 Omaha, NE Ranch Bowl 7/06 Colorado Springs, CO 32 Bleu 7/07 Fort Collins, CO Starlight 7/11 Columbus, OH Little Brothers 7/12 Akron, OH The Lime Spider 7/13 Ann Arbor, MI The Blind Pig 7/14 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection end tour 7/15 Wilmar, MN Sonshine Festival Tour with Shadows Fall, Himsa, and Remembering Never 7/16 Montreal, QC Rainbow 7/17 Toronto, ON Opera House 7/18 Glen Falls, NY Glen Falls Civic Center Aggressive Music Festival 7/19 Williamsville, NY Infinity 7/21 Wilkes-Barre, PA Wyoming Valley Zoo 7/22 Springfield, VA Jaxx 7/24 Norfolk, VA The Norva 7/26 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbit 7/27 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room 7/28 St. Petersburg, FL State Theatre 7/29 New Orleans, LA House of Blues 7/30 Houston, TX Engine Room 7/31 Austin, TX The Back Room 8/01 Abilene, TX Desperado's 8/03 Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Live 8/05 Albuquerque, NM Launch Pad 8/06 Tucson, AZ The Rock 8/08 Anaheim, CA House of Blues 8/09 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues 8/10 Grand Junction, CO Mesa Theatre 8/11 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre 8/12 Omaha, NE Ranch Bowl 8/13 Clinton, IA Pig Pen 8/15 Cleveland, OH The Scene Pavilion Strhess Fest 8/17 Toledo, OH Headliners 8/18 Erie, PA Forward Hall 8/19 Syracuse, NY The Lost end tour 8/21 Lewiston, PA Purple Door Festival THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Tour with CANNIBAL CORPSE, and Severed Savior 7/01 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits 7/02 Spartanburg, SC Ground Zero 7/03 Norfolk, VA The Norva 7/04 Fayetteville, NC Jester's Pub w/out Cannibal Corpse 7/05 New York, NY BB King's Blues Club 7/06 Wilkes-Barre, PA The Zoo 7/07 Buffalo, NY Showplace 7/08 Manchester, NH The Bomb Shelter 7/09 Montreal, QC Foufounes Electriques 7/10 Toronto, ON The Opera House 7/11 Ottawa, ON Capital Music Hall 7/13 Thunder Bay, ON Warp 9 7/14 Winnipeg, MB Royal Albert Hall 7/15 Regina, SK Riddel Center 7/16 Edmonton, AB post was too long read more at your own risk |
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