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Slayer frontman rushed to the hospital
Slayer were forced to cancel their show in Myrtle Beach, SC Wednesday night (September 1) after the band's frontman, Tom Araya, was allegedly rushed to a hospital as a result of suffering a bad allergic reaction. There has been no official update with regards to Tom's condition.
| Band profile: | Slayer |
Manowar part ways with nuclear blast
Joey DeMaio issued a statement today from Munich, Germany confirming that Manowar has left Nuclear Blast Records.
http://www.manowar.com/
http://www.manowar.com/
| Band profile: | Manowar |
Deinonychus new album in October
Deinonychus, the Dutch one-man doom metal project of Marco Kehren (Previously known as Odin), will release a new album which will be called "Insomnia". It will be recorded in The Outer Studio in Rome (as was the previous album) with producer Guiseppe Orlando (better known from the Italian Novembre).
A re-realese of the album Mournament will also occur, which contains bonus video clip of the song "Ascencion - The 40th Day After Easter". This all will be arranged by My Kingdom Music.
A re-realese of the album Mournament will also occur, which contains bonus video clip of the song "Ascencion - The 40th Day After Easter". This all will be arranged by My Kingdom Music.
| Source: | mykingdommusic.net |
Mayhem started working on new material
New material is being written for the next album which will hit the streets around October/November next year on Season Of Mist
http://www.thetruemayhem.com/
http://www.thetruemayhem.com/
| Band profile: | Mayhem |
Battlelore part ways with vocalist
Patrik Mennander is not longer on the band because of time problems, the band and the singer parted ways in a good way, Patrick will be play one last gig at 29 of October. The replacement will be Tomi Mykkänen of Evemaster, but as only as a session vocalist for the forthcoming tours. Also the bassist Miika Kokkola will not join the tour because of "personal reasons", for him will be Timo Honkanen of Elderthrones (and Battlelore's webmaster) also as session player for the tour.
Mystic Prophecy Set Release Date
The germans have set the release date for the upcoming album "Never-Ending" to 25/10/2004.
| Band profile: | Mystic Prophecy |
Morbid Angel part ways with Earache Records
More labels movements, in this case is Morbid Angel that part ways with Earache. They will be checking new offers by the interested labels, they plan to decide about it in the next months because they plan a release for 2005, this are few worlds from Morbid Angel:
"We wish Earache continued success in selling our catalogue and have an obvious professional vested interest in this. We wish to thank all of the Earache employees past and present for their work on Morbid Angel's releases. We are looking forward with excitement to the future."
"We wish Earache continued success in selling our catalogue and have an obvious professional vested interest in this. We wish to thank all of the Earache employees past and present for their work on Morbid Angel's releases. We are looking forward with excitement to the future."
| Band profile: | Morbid Angel |
Nightmare - Part Ways With Napalm Records
The band explains the reason of the separation:
"We have parted ways with NAPALM Records very amicably... We will never forget what this label has done for us so far... giving us the breath for a second birth in 1999... NAPALM RECORDS being actually focusing into a completely different music style from what we offer, we simply decided all together that it would be better for us to find a more suitable label for what we have to offer..."
The band is looking for a record deal.
"We have parted ways with NAPALM Records very amicably... We will never forget what this label has done for us so far... giving us the breath for a second birth in 1999... NAPALM RECORDS being actually focusing into a completely different music style from what we offer, we simply decided all together that it would be better for us to find a more suitable label for what we have to offer..."
The band is looking for a record deal.
| Band profile: | Nightmare |
Strapping Young Lad enter in the studio
SYL is back in studio on Aug 17th, more info to come about the new recording on hevydevy and on the SYL site. To finish, the Strapping young lad "for Those Aboot To Rock" (DVD) will be released in Europe on Nov. 2nd 2004 (same release date for the US). We will keep you updated, we will probably have some of the DVD available on the site.
www.devintownsend.com
www.devintownsend.com
| Band profile: | Strapping Young Lad |
Axel Rudi Pell: New album ready
the upcoming album called "The Ballads III" is ready and here is the final track list:
1. Don't Say Goodbye
2. Forever Angel (Acoustic)
3. The Temple Of The King
4. Heartbreaker
5. The Line
6. Sea Of Evil
7. The Curse Of The Chains
8. All The Rest Of My Life
9. Forever Angel
10. The Temple Of The Holy
11. Under The Gun
the album is planed to be release on 25/10/2004.
There is also planned the release of a single before of the album, but not confirm yet.
1. Don't Say Goodbye
2. Forever Angel (Acoustic)
3. The Temple Of The King
4. Heartbreaker
5. The Line
6. Sea Of Evil
7. The Curse Of The Chains
8. All The Rest Of My Life
9. Forever Angel
10. The Temple Of The Holy
11. Under The Gun
the album is planed to be release on 25/10/2004.
There is also planned the release of a single before of the album, but not confirm yet.
Ayreon - Reissue of the old albums by InsideOut
For Ayreon fans the first news is the re-issues of the old Ayreon albums by InsideOut. One re-issue is already available in stores. The Universal Migrator Part 1 & Part 2 are no longer sold seperately, but as a special double CD edition for a single CD price. Check your stores now! Next re-issue will be 'Into the Electric Castle' with a bonus multi-media file and improved artwork.
As a sidenote. A third single is to be released early fall, 2004.
As a sidenote. A third single is to be released early fall, 2004.
| Source: | ayreon.com |
| Band profile: | Ayreon |
15th Anniversary celebration
In October, the Gathering will exist for 15 years! The band has prepared many things to celebrate this anniversary with their public!
First the band will do a Dutch tour in October.
During this tour two special jubilee shows will be held on October 15th and October 16th at Dutch venues Mezz Concert & Dance in Breda and Groene Engel in Oss. With several songs the band will be supported on stage by enormous video projections of clips made by national and international multimedia artists. A promising Dutch VJ will mix these clips with his own video art and live images of the band on stage. Dutch talented people can still join the project. If you're interested, please visit the website of Parnassus on Stage . At the gig in Oss, the winning videoclip will be announced and as a gift the band will release the best video clips on a future live DVD, that should be released next year.
2nd leg of the Sleepy Buildings tour
Then, the Gathering will hit European roads again for the 2nd leg of the Sleepy Buildings tour in November. In the forthcoming shows the band will of course bring all highlights from their 15 year career completed with some totally new songs that will appear on the forthcoming new studio album planned for release in 2005. So if you want to catch the Gathering on tour be sure to get your tickets in time! There is no concert planned until September 2005! The band will take a long break from touring. They will work on the new album whose release is planned for 2005. And of course, Anneke will give birth to her baby!!
Next to the tour activities, the Gathering has prepared two special actions!!
In the Netherlands, everybody who buys the albums Souvenirs or Sleepy Buildings during September at some selected stores will receive a special 'tour T-shirt'. And he makes chance to win 2 free concert tickets and 2 backstage passes including meet & greet with the Gathering! Have a look at the website soon to see which CD stores are a part of this action.
The second action is the Gathering supporting War Child Netherlands
During the Dutch tourdates in October a photo exhibition will be held from photographer Peter Blok . Peter Blok has photographed the band for several years and this resulted in a collection of his most beautiful and sensational the Gathering photos on and off stage. In December the enlarged the Gathering photo's of the exhibition will be auctioned on eBay under the worldwide the Gathering fan base!. Each 1 piece limited edition enlarged photo in a 20 x 28 inch frame, is supplied with authentic autographs of band and photographer. All proceeds from the auction will be granted to War Child Netherlands
Read more ››
First the band will do a Dutch tour in October.
During this tour two special jubilee shows will be held on October 15th and October 16th at Dutch venues Mezz Concert & Dance in Breda and Groene Engel in Oss. With several songs the band will be supported on stage by enormous video projections of clips made by national and international multimedia artists. A promising Dutch VJ will mix these clips with his own video art and live images of the band on stage. Dutch talented people can still join the project. If you're interested, please visit the website of Parnassus on Stage . At the gig in Oss, the winning videoclip will be announced and as a gift the band will release the best video clips on a future live DVD, that should be released next year.
2nd leg of the Sleepy Buildings tour
Then, the Gathering will hit European roads again for the 2nd leg of the Sleepy Buildings tour in November. In the forthcoming shows the band will of course bring all highlights from their 15 year career completed with some totally new songs that will appear on the forthcoming new studio album planned for release in 2005. So if you want to catch the Gathering on tour be sure to get your tickets in time! There is no concert planned until September 2005! The band will take a long break from touring. They will work on the new album whose release is planned for 2005. And of course, Anneke will give birth to her baby!!
Next to the tour activities, the Gathering has prepared two special actions!!
In the Netherlands, everybody who buys the albums Souvenirs or Sleepy Buildings during September at some selected stores will receive a special 'tour T-shirt'. And he makes chance to win 2 free concert tickets and 2 backstage passes including meet & greet with the Gathering! Have a look at the website soon to see which CD stores are a part of this action.
The second action is the Gathering supporting War Child Netherlands
During the Dutch tourdates in October a photo exhibition will be held from photographer Peter Blok . Peter Blok has photographed the band for several years and this resulted in a collection of his most beautiful and sensational the Gathering photos on and off stage. In December the enlarged the Gathering photo's of the exhibition will be auctioned on eBay under the worldwide the Gathering fan base!. Each 1 piece limited edition enlarged photo in a 20 x 28 inch frame, is supplied with authentic autographs of band and photographer. All proceeds from the auction will be granted to War Child Netherlands
Read more ››
| Source: | sandandmercury.com |
| Band profile: | The Gathering |
Silvio Massaro undergoes surgery
A stament and a little interview in Vanishing Point site have been post explaining the situation of the singer and some info on the upcoming album:
On the morning of August 16th, only hours from celebrating his 30th birthday, Silvio Massaro was admitted to St. Vincent Hospital, Melbourne Australia, for surgery on his sinus'. We asked him for the reason why this surgery was done. We sent in our little reporter Linda Fiorentino to ask the important questions.
LF: Could you start off by telling everyone why you went into surgery?
SM: Well for years now I have been suffering from massive headaches which would literally render me being locked up in a dark room, curled up in a ball, till the pain went away. I'd get a huge build up of congestion in my sinus' which would be the main problem of it creating so much pressure being built up, making my head throb! After numerous x-rays and tests we found out my sinus' was the main reason why I was getting these bastard headaches all the time.
LF: How long were you in for? What did they have to do to you?
SM: I was only in over night and in for most of the following day. They reconstructed my whole sinus by taking out parts of my skull behind my nose and scarping out cartilage. I have never been in so much pain as I am in now. I feel like someone has swung a baseball bat across my face!
LF: How long will you be out action?
SM: Well my doctor assures me that the worst will be over in a couple of weeks.
LF: Off the subject a bit here but when are we going to see the new CD from VP?
SM: Haha! Good question... Well all will be revealed very soon I hope. There has been a chain of events as of late, which I can't get into for legal reasons, but we will issue some press releases in the next couple of weeks. It's been so frustrating for us lately knowing we have a killer album to release but can't release just yet. We understand and sympathise with our fans' frustrations and for that were sorry. I know they won't be disappointed with the new CD. So I can say with confidence that it's definitely worth the wait!
LF: Well thanks for taking the time out to chat to me Silvio and we really hope that you have a speedy recovery.
SM: No probs, thank you.
http://www.vanishing-point.com.au/
On the morning of August 16th, only hours from celebrating his 30th birthday, Silvio Massaro was admitted to St. Vincent Hospital, Melbourne Australia, for surgery on his sinus'. We asked him for the reason why this surgery was done. We sent in our little reporter Linda Fiorentino to ask the important questions.
LF: Could you start off by telling everyone why you went into surgery?
SM: Well for years now I have been suffering from massive headaches which would literally render me being locked up in a dark room, curled up in a ball, till the pain went away. I'd get a huge build up of congestion in my sinus' which would be the main problem of it creating so much pressure being built up, making my head throb! After numerous x-rays and tests we found out my sinus' was the main reason why I was getting these bastard headaches all the time.
LF: How long were you in for? What did they have to do to you?
SM: I was only in over night and in for most of the following day. They reconstructed my whole sinus by taking out parts of my skull behind my nose and scarping out cartilage. I have never been in so much pain as I am in now. I feel like someone has swung a baseball bat across my face!
LF: How long will you be out action?
SM: Well my doctor assures me that the worst will be over in a couple of weeks.
LF: Off the subject a bit here but when are we going to see the new CD from VP?
SM: Haha! Good question... Well all will be revealed very soon I hope. There has been a chain of events as of late, which I can't get into for legal reasons, but we will issue some press releases in the next couple of weeks. It's been so frustrating for us lately knowing we have a killer album to release but can't release just yet. We understand and sympathise with our fans' frustrations and for that were sorry. I know they won't be disappointed with the new CD. So I can say with confidence that it's definitely worth the wait!
LF: Well thanks for taking the time out to chat to me Silvio and we really hope that you have a speedy recovery.
SM: No probs, thank you.
http://www.vanishing-point.com.au/
| Band profile: | Vanishing Point |
Yngwie Malmsteen update
A little update on www.yngwie.org says that the guitar heroe is working on his next (rock) album, but also is taking care for a new "classical" opus.
| Band profile: | Yngwie Malmsteen |
System Of A Down News On New Album
System of a Down have set the release of their new album to be in the fall of this year, according to a
message in their website http://systemofadown.com/comingsoon/
"With regards to the recording process guitarist Daron Malakian said in the statement, "We'll play a song through and record it, listen to it and decide what could make it even better ? repeat a chorus, simple rearrangement, we all spark off of each other. Some of the new songs have really great moments ? we want to make the entire song a really great moment."
According to Malakian, some surprising influences can be heard in SYSTEM's new work. "The influences range from KRAFTWERK to DARKTHRONE to the ZOMBIES to the BEACH BOYS, but it all fits together," he said. "It works" "
www.blabbermouth.net
message in their website http://systemofadown.com/comingsoon/
"With regards to the recording process guitarist Daron Malakian said in the statement, "We'll play a song through and record it, listen to it and decide what could make it even better ? repeat a chorus, simple rearrangement, we all spark off of each other. Some of the new songs have really great moments ? we want to make the entire song a really great moment."
According to Malakian, some surprising influences can be heard in SYSTEM's new work. "The influences range from KRAFTWERK to DARKTHRONE to the ZOMBIES to the BEACH BOYS, but it all fits together," he said. "It works" "
www.blabbermouth.net
| Band profile: | System Of A Down |