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Rob Rock - Sign With AFM, New Album On The Way

"?no problem to get a record deal with this name? We are proud to inform you that ROB ROCK (by the way, that´s his real name) signed a record deal with AFM Records. We are sure that we will have a great relationship and we are looking forward to working with you, Rob! The new album entitled "Holy Hell" is still in the recording process, nevertheless the release date is planned for spring 2005. As it currently looks like the album will be mixed by ROY Z, after he finished the mix of the new JUDAS PRIEST album."

http://www.afm-records.de/
Posted: 13.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


Blut Aus Nord - New MCD

Acording to the Candlelight website the band will be releasing a MCD in 2005 to be called "Thematic Emanation Of Archetypal Multiplicity"

http://www.candlelightrecords.co.uk
Posted: 13.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


Phil Anselmo statement about Dimebag

Philip Anselmo's (SUPERJOINT RITUAL, DOWN, ex-PANTERA) friend "J" has posted the following message on the official DOWN forum in regards to the tragic death of DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott:

"I don't have a big official statement. I do have a lot of inside knowledge on the PANTERA feud from Philip's side and tonight he gave me the green light to let everyone else in on what I know. He trusts me to do this, and I take 100 percent responsibility for anything that is inaccurate, but I'm confident you all know I'm not going to touch on this subject unless it's from the heart. He didn't even give me any specifics except for the final part of this post... he just wants me to tell people what I know to be true.

"Philip loved Darrell like a brother, always. They accomplished things together that most wouldn't even dare to dream. None of us can know what it's like to be riding such a big machine, it changes the face of music and brings joy millions of people's lives around the globe. The rewards are big, but the stress is unimaginable if things don't go perfectly. Yes, PANTERA broke up and there was a lot of shit-talking through the media. There are two people on this board who would periodically ask me about what's going to happen with PANTERA in the future. I told them each time that I don't know when, but I'm 100 percent sure that we will see PANTERA together again. I told them that when PANTERA does get back together, you will know somebody who never lost faith, not for a second. Why did I tell them this? Because I know Philip loves those guys and when he was ready, he would reach out to them and try to make it work again. I had the feeling that one morning (afternoon maybe), all the 'Cowboys From Hell' boys would just roll out of the rack and say 'Let's go!'

"Of all the time I've spent with Rex and Philip, I never badgered them about PANTERA, but the subject did come up every once in a while. As for Rex, he would refer to the state of things simply as 'silly nonsense.' All I ever got out of Philip was something like 'Nyaaaa... I just don't feel like sitting down and writing PANTERA riffs right now.' ... and that's it! No crazy accusations, name-calling, or carrying on. As a matter of fact, in the middle of all the heat, Philip described Vinnie as 'the perfect drummer' and that Vinnie could drum more perfect than a drum machine if he so chose. What he said of Dime, he also repeated tonight. 'The best of the best.'

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Source: Blabbermouth.net
Band profile: Pantera
Posted: 13.12.2004 by Undercraft | Comments (3)


Paul DiAnno Attacked On Stage In Israel

According to BW&BK, former Iron Maiden frontman Paul DiAnno was attacked by a crazed fan during his live stage performance on Friday, December 10th at the Barbie in Tel Aviv, Israel. The security managed to stop the attack, but Dianno was badly shaken, and managed to conclude his performace.

EDIT: This story was denied by the promoters, who said that no such thing has, in fact, happened. It's now hard to say who started the rumour in the first place. We apologise for this misinformation.

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Band profile: Iron Maiden
Posted: 12.12.2004 by Ivan | Comments (0)


Korpiklaani - Release Date And A New Video Online

Finnish Folk metal band Korpiklaani has set the release date for their 2nd album, Voice Of Wilderness will be released 24th of january.
They've also completed work on the video to "Hunting Song", off the upcoming album. The track, along with eight others, are sure to inspire fans of the Finnish woodsmen, as well as fans of the Folk Metal genre.

Download the video to catch a glipse of these wildmen caught in the middle of Finnish film history: The images seen in the video are the only footage remaining of a 1927 film destroyed in a fire. The 18 seconds of rescued material are a unique piece of Finnish film history. The rights to use the footage were granted to KORPIKLAANI by the son, now 87 years old, of the original copyright holder. The film was entitled "Ei auta itku markkinoilla".

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Source: Napalm Records
Posted: 12.12.2004 by Angelique | Comments (0)


Ensiferum - Line Up Change

Ensiferum regretfully announces, that the bassplayer Jukka-Pekka Miettinen has resigned from the band for personal reasons.
He doesn't have time for Ensiferum anymore. Miettinen will play in the two last gigs this year in X mass festival 18.12.2004 in Holland and 19.12.2004 in Belgium. A new bass player is found for Ensiferum. Bass will be played by Sami Hinkka.

Source: ensiferum.com
Band profile: Ensiferum
Posted: 11.12.2004 by Angelique | Comments (0)


Atrocity and Leaves Eyes attacked by French police

After their grand finale show of the Atlantis Lovelorn Tour in La Locomotive, Paris, 28.11.2004, the bands experienced an arbitrary infringement by the French police.

Right after crew and band had finished the loading of their bus in front of La Locomotive and the adjacent varieté Moulin Rouge, policemen appeared and told the bus driver to leave the street immediately. Due to traffic jam this was not possible at once. The policemen started to speak in a very aggressive tone that culminated in the threat of arresting the bus driver. Moreover, they took his papers away, thus Liv Kristine and Alexander Krull complained about the rude behaviour of the police. Then, suddenly a bunch of policemen, some in civil dresses, rushed the bus and attacked the musicians. As a result of their action, Alex Krull was injured, as several policemen beat him and violently pulled him out of the bus and down to the grown. Also, Liv Kristine was thrown against the wall of the bus and was hurt, too. Without any explanations, Alex Krull was arrested, along with him bus driver Helge, the Dutch tour guide Harald and the German journalist Robert Suß who had only tried to calm the policemen and keep them from attacking Liv Kristine again. They were all arrested in front of hundreds of visitors at Moulin Rouge and other clubs who witnessed the happening. The four of them were taken to the police station, where they had to stay for about three hours without any explanation for the arrest, any hearing or announcing of their rights. Only intensive pressure from the German embassy lead to their release. Still the police gave no explanation for their aggressive treatment, nor any excuse.

All these facts concerning these inconceivable happenings will be announced to both the German Foreign Bureau and the Head of Police in Paris.

Info taken from the Napalm Records newsletter

Band profile: Atrocity
Posted: 10.12.2004 by Undercraft | Comments (0)


Rivendell - New Album Finished

"A new epic album of Rivendell has been recorded and mixed. The title of the new album will be "Farewell - The Last Dawn". A release date is not known yet, but prepare for this masterpiece within a few months.

Tracklist:
Rivendell
The Fall of Gil-Galad
The Old Walking Song
Eärendil
A Drinking Song
Back To Lands We Once Did know
Tinúviel

More information on this release will come as soon as possible. Check out the official site of Rivendell here."

http://www.skaldicart.de/
Posted: 10.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


Six Feet Under - Set Release Date & Title

"Just want to fill you all in... This new CD is fully mixed and mastered and after an all night session at the Hit Factory, finishing the mix and then a drive back to Tampa from Miami at 4am, only to start a photo session with Joe Giron starting at 11am and finishing up last night at 9pm. I am sitting here right now cranking the fucking shit out of this motherfucker. Its full on brutal death metal guys -I mean heavy as fuck! The title track is on right now--this is the first CD ive done in a long time probably since Max Violence that I'm just freaking out on. I don't know how we put this together, but we did and its really, really incredible. Just had to share that with you this new CD will rip your fucking heads off. That's a promise-late Barnes

The title of the album is 13 and here are some of the track titles that we are allowed to release:
Decomposition of the Human Race
Somewhere in the Darkness
The Poison Hand

13 will be released through Metal Blade Records on March 22, 2005!"

http://www.sfu420.com/

Band profile: Six Feet Under
Posted: 10.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


Brainstorm - New Release & Tour Dates 2005

"Brainstorm have decided to postpone the release of their upcoming album "Liquid Monster". "We simply want to give the best possible album to our fans and due to some changes in the time-schedule of the recordings we got the chance to take some more time", comments guitar player Torsten Ihlenfeld. "Mark my words, it will be worth the wait!"

The single-CD "All Those Words" will be released the 7th of March, 2005. It will include new songs as well as unreleased tracks and video-clips and is meant as an appetizer for greater things to come. Talking about the full length album, the new Brainstorm longplayer "Liquid Monster" is due for release the 4th of April, 2005!

"This album will fullfill your high expectations", says Torsten. "We are simply overwhelmed by the new songs and the recording process which is running very smooth by now."

Because of the new release dates for single and album, the tour got pushed back a little bit. There's ALL NEW tourdates. Please change this in your files and print these NEW TOURDATES listed below from now on!

The support bands are confirmed by now. AT VANCE (Germany/Sweden) and MERCENARY (Denmark) are two great bands that make this tour a killer package!

ROCK HARD presents:
"Inside The Monster - World Tour 2005 / 2006"
BRAINSTORM
AT VANCE
MERCENARY

19.04.05 Copenhagen (DK) · The Rock
20.04.05 Hamburg (D) · Markthalle
21.04.05 Essen (D) · Zeche Karl
22.04.05 Vosselaar (B) · Biebob
23.04.05 Andernach (D) · JUZ
24.04.05 Helmond (NL) · Plato
26.04.05 Paris (F) · La Locomotive
27.04.05 Ludwigsburg (D) · Rockfabrik
28.04.05 Milano (I) · Transylvania
29.04.05 Ljubljana (SLO) · Metalkova
30.04.05 Budapest (H) · Petöfi Hall (t.b.c.)
01.05.05 Wien (A) · Prater Open Air
03.05.05 München (D) · Backstage
04.05.05 Pratteln (CH) · Z7
05.05.05 Nürnberg (D) · Hirsch
06.05.05 Langen (D) · Stadthalle
booking: ICS / www.metaltix.de

The second leg of the tour is in the booking-status right now. Brainstorm will then conquer other territories in Europe and overseas. Stay tuned!

Cheerz,
Andreas"

http://www.truemetal.org/brainstorm/

Band profile: Brainstorm
Posted: 10.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


Aborted - New Album/Special Edition

"Belgian gory death metallers ABORTED will enter Antfarm Studios in Denmark on December 8 with producer Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, PANZERCHRIST, MNEMIC, EKTOMORPH, DESTINY) to begin recording their new full-length album, "The Archaic Abattoir", tentatively due in early 2005. Among the 10 songs expected to appear on the album is a re-worked version of "Gestated Rabidity" (off the group's "The Haematobic" EP), as well as "The Inertia", "A Cold Logistic Slaughter", "The Archaic Abattoir", and "Parturient Homicidal Craving"."

"ABORTED NEEDS THE FANS FOR THE ARCHAIC ABATTOIR!
Yup, in order to make a very limited & special edition for the new album 'the archaic abattoir', Aborted is looking for fans to make this one special for the band & themselves! A very limited quantity of the new aborted album will be released as 'The Archaic Files' and will be put in a special edition box set featuring the new album + as bonus an 'Evidence bag' filled with crime scene shots of what happened during all the Archaic Abattoir massacre sessions.

We urge the fans who want to help to send out pieces of hair (5cm length orso) broken off nails and such to:
THE LISTENABLE ABATTOIR, BP 73, 62930 WIMEREUX, FRANCE

Send your hair taped to paper with some adhesive tape, and nails as well. also everything in a plastic bag. People sending in stuff will get on a list, the list giving you following props:

1-you will be able to purchase this special edition, only people on the list will get the possibility to get this special version, other editions of the album will not have this bonus artwork & packaging.

2-your name will be printed in the crime scene report as VICTIM, so please when sending in stuff, also write in yiour letter you give us permission to put your name in the evidence bag as 'victim'. Just a legal matter which has to be taken care off.

This is your time fans, we need you all to make this work! And this is also our 'thank you' to all the people who have supported the band over the years to do something back for you with this very special edition.

Best regards"
Aborted/listenable Records

http://www.olympicrecordings.com
http://www.goremageddon.be/

Band profile: Aborted
Posted: 09.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


Swallow The Sun - Set Release Date/Ballet Deviare

"Olympic Recordings is pleased to announce the upcoming release of doom/deaths greatest new hope, Finlands SWALLOW THE SUN. Their debut album, "The Morning Never Came", has been called one of doom metals finest moments to 5/5 Ks by Kerrang! magazine and has been receiving rave reviews in all over the world. The album will be released in the U.S. on February 22nd with a cover of Candlemass "Solitude as an added bonus track.

Visit www.swallowthesun.net for sound clips."

"A ballet group in New York called Ballet Deviare will be using our song 'Hold This Woe' as one of the songs in their performance. The opening night for the ballet is 18.12.2004, look at their website at http://www.balletdeviare.org/ for details. So if you live in New York and are interested in how to mix ballet with metal, go check it out!

Also, we've added the first confirmed show for next year, and it will also be our first gig ever in Lahti. Check out the events' website, there will be some excellent bands."

http://www.swallowthesun.net
http://www.olympicrecordings.com

Band profile: Swallow The Sun
Posted: 09.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


Osmose Productions - Noisymotions DVD Out Now

This is the content of the DVD:

1) IMPALED NAZARENE - Armageddon death squad
2) MELECHESH - Genies, Sorcerers and Mesopotamian Nights
3) DRILLER KILLER - From Out Of Nowhere
4) PHAZM - Loneliness
5) NOTRE DAME - Spiderella 's XXX
6) ANTAEUS - Blood War III
7) IMPALED NAZARENE - Penis And Circ e s
8) IMMORTAL - Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)
9) DIVINE DECAY - Divine : Decay
10) DARK TRANQUILLITY - Zodijackyl Light
11) ARKHON INFAUSTUS - Whirlwind Journey
12) IMPALED NAZARENE - Hardboiled and Still Hellbound
13) ABSU - Mananän
14) LOUDPIPES - Morphin Trip
15) NOTRE DAME - Booffon Bloody Booffon
16) ABOMINATOR - Renegades of Hells Command
17) IMPALED NAZARENE - Cogito Ergo Sum
18) SETH - Die Weihe
19) DIABOLOS RISING - Satanic Propaganda
20) IMMORTAL - Grim And Frostbitten Kingdom
21) DIVINE DECAY - Silence Of Decades
22) IMPALED NAZARENE - 1999: Karmageddon Warriors
23) GEHENNAH - Decibels Rebel
24) DARK TRANQUILLITY - Hedon
25) LOUDPIPES - Down Hill Blues
26) NOTRE DAME. - Scarecrows
27) IMPALED NAZARENE - When All Golden turned to shit
28) ABSU - Fantasizing to The Third of the Pagan Visions/Quoth The Sky Nevermore/Act II

Bonus Video listing :

- BLASPHEMY (Live - Fuck Christ Tour 93)
- Ritual
- Blasphemy

- SUBLIME CADAVERIC DECOMPOSITION (live)
- XX . 06 . 01
- XX . 04 . 02
- XX . 07 . 01

- IMMORTAL (Live - Fuck Christ Tour 93)
- Unsilent Storms In The North Abyss
- The Call Of The Wintermoon
- A Sign For The Norse Hordes To Ride + Intro The Sun No Longer Rises
- Unholy Forces Of Evil
- Pure Holocaust

- INHUME (live)
- Blood Process To Decelerate
- Orgy At 7th Street

- ANGEL CORPSE (live)
- Black Solstice
- Wartorn
- Christhammer

- NOTRE DAME
- At Home With Snowy Shaw

http://www.osmoseproductions.com/
Posted: 09.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


Agent Steel - New Album & DVD , New Sample

"Greetings! We've been in writing mode now for sometime and the new material is coming along; at this time we have 9 completed songs (8 of which we will use for sure for the new album). We can reveal a few of the new song titles: "Curse reborn" "Hail to the chief" "Wash this planet clean" (sample mp3 http://agentsteelonline.com/washthisplanet.mp3 ). Plans are to write another 4 songs and then start the recording process. We are scheduled to perform live at the Keep-It-True Festival in Germany on April 2nd 2005 with more live dates TBA. Our live DVD is still in the works; the as-yet-untitled disc will mainly include live footage from our appearance
at Dynamo Open Air 2004 festival in Holland
and also a few songs from the warm up show at the Effenaar in Eindhoven and some bonus material.
Expect the DVD to be released in late March 2005."

http://agentsteelonline.com
Posted: 09.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)


The Provenance - Mp3 Online

"Yes they recorded a masterpece! 'How Would You Like To Be Spat At' is something unique, between Progressive, Dark, Gothic and Metal borders. The most precious and amazing piece of music our Swedish friends put together since their beginning! New songs are fantastic and we can only say THANX to Emma, Tobias, Joakim, Joel and Jonnie for this album! You reached the top! Scarlet is 10000% proud to release 'How Would You Like To Be Spat At'. You Like To Be Spat At'.
Check the new song 'Going Down'!"
http://www.scarletrecords.it/bands/The%20Provenance/The%20Provenance%20-%20Going%20down.mp3

http://www.scarletrecords.it/

Band profile: The Provenance
Posted: 09.12.2004 by Music4TheSpirit | Comments (0)