DIMMU BORGIR
from: www.dimmu-borgir.com
"With this statement we want to announce that Astennu has been
fired and will no longer be a part of Dimmu Borgir.
Basically we decided to release Astennu from all duties because
it became apparent over the past 7-8 months that
he was in the band for all the wrong reasons and had lost all of
his passion and dedication, enthusiasm and
100% commitment to Dimmu Borgir and what we stand for. For all
of us in the band, Dimmu is our life, it`s a
way of life and not some fucking boring day job!!! So we came to
a unanimous decision about the whole
affair and we are proud to announce Astennu`s replacement, Archon
on guitar who will appear on the
forthcoming as yet untitled new album due to be recorded September
2000. Silenoz says:-
"We kept the whole affair with Astennu confidential for a while
untill we found a suitable
replacement. Dedication and 100% commitment was what we were looking
for in a
musician and these are qualities we noticed immediately in Archon
as well as being a
killer guitarist and an individual." -"The first two weeks with
Archon proved to be very productive
and successful and he's allready contributed to three of the new
songs. There's a very positive atmosphere
within the band and we're looking forward to record the new material
and next year's
world tour in support of the album!"
ANCIENT
from: www.metalblade.com
ANCIENT "God Loves The Dead" is the title of the upcoming
mini album with Ancient. The title track has
previously been released on the LP version of "The Halls Of Eternity"
but not elsewhere. The mini album will also include l
ive recordings, remixes, a new version on "Trolltaar" as well as
a cover song. The disc will also include 2 videos for
PC of the songs "God Loves The Dead" and "Um Sonho Psycodelico",
both previously unreleased.
A video for "I, Madman" will also be done during the summer.
Aphazel and Deadly Kristin are almost ready with the recordings
of their
side- project Dreamlike Horror. This is a kind of gothic/ ambient/
horror project with some black metal p
arts. There has not been signed any record- contract yet, but we
will soon get some more news on this.
A release of this should be out sometime after the summer.
At last we can announce a new stable drummer in the band, GroM.
Ancient recently parted ways
with Krigse due to personal and musical differences.
We feel that the current line-up is the best Ancient have had so
far, with great musicians...there is a great unity,
devotion, professionality, friendship and harmony between the current
members and that all reflects in a great
team-work and excellent results. All this will reflect greatly
on the new material, recordings and live performances
to come. Therefore we wish to wait no longer to make it as official
and known as possible. This looks to be the
most stable of the Ancient line-ups and should remain such for
a long long time.
VADER
from: www.metalblade.com
VADER will enter studio on 7/28 to record a new album that will
feature 3-4 new tracks, 2 covers (Judas Priest
and Destruction), 2 bonus tracks from the Japan edition of Litany
and 4 live tracks from Thrash'em All Festival in
Poland. Mauser (guitar) and Doc (drums) recorded the debut album
of DIES IRAE. The band features also Novy
(bas, vocals) from Devilyn and Jacek Hiro (guitars) from Sceptic.
The debut CD is entitled "Immolated". Fast, technical
and brutal death metal in the vein of VADER and MORBID ANGEL.
IMMOLATION
from: www.metalblade.com
IMMOLATION going to the studio: message from Bob of IMMOLATION:
"We'll be recording at Millbrook
Sound Studios again. (Millbrook , NY) The album title is actually
something that our fans should be well familiar
with if they have the last album... We will be in the studio during
the month of June. We are still writing the last bits
now, but I'm sure it will be 8 songs long. There are no line up
changes, John McEntee from Incantation was
helping us out playing guitar for our tours, but Tom is still a
member of the band. So the line up is the same. The new s
ongs are very dark and heavy with a lot of wicked twists. Allot
of powerful material, allot of emotion and feeling,
heavy as hell, various speeds and tempos, ... without a doubt our
most violent and intense album yet!
CANNIBAL CORPSE
from: www.metalblade.com
CANNIBAL CORPSE will record on their upcoming American tour a live
album that will be also out on Video and
DVD. The title of it will be “Live Cannibalism”. They´ll
record shows in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, Colin
Richardson will mix the whole thing. If everything works out fine
we release the stuff in summer.
SIX FEET UNDER
from: www.metalblade.com
Six Feet Under will embark on a two week jaunt including dates
on the world famous Van's Warped Tour.
The bands' "Maximum Violence" album continues to astound at retail.
At the end of the tour, the band will head to
Miami to complete work on "Graveyard Classics", an ode to the bands
that influenced them.
list of songs for Graveyard Classics
Holocaust by:L Savatage
TNT By: AC/DC
Sweet Leaf by: Black Sabbath
Son Of A Bitch by: Accept
Pirahna by: Exodus
Steppin Stone by: the Sex Pistols
Confused by: Angelwitch
California Uber Alles by: Dead Kennedys
Smoke On the Water by: Deep Purple
Blackout by: Scorpions (Features guest vocals by John Bush)
Purple Haze by: Jimi Hendrix
In League With Satan by: Venom
This is long time planned and has nothing to do with the hype that
is going on around those records these days. They
just had no time yet to do it, but Barnes always wanted to something
like this. The band has again recorded in Criteria
Studios and looks forward to a September/October release. There
will be shitloads of classics recorded in the SFU
style. Visit The Official Six Feet Under Web Site: www.sfu420.com.
BORKNAGAR
from: www.centurymedia.com
Borknagar's fourth album, Quintessence, is now available. The new
disc was produced by Hypocrisy's Peter Tagtgren
at his Abyss Studios (Dimmu Borgir, Immortal) in Sweden and features
some of the band's most intense and o
ver-the-top material to date. The core of the band (guitarists
Oystein G. Brun and Jens Ryland, bassist/vocalist
ICS Vortex (aka Dimmu Borgir's Simen Hestnaes)) have been joined
by new drummer Asgeir Mickelson
(Spiral Architect) and keyboardist Lars Are Nedland (Solefald).
Hot off of last year's support slot on the US
Emperor tour Borknagar have crafted an album which mixes intense,
brutal instrumentation with their prior
Nordic sound. The band are rehearsing through the summer and plan
on hitting the road this fall in Europe.
CRYPTOPSY
from: www.centurymedia.com
Montreal, Canada's Cryptopsy are hitting the studio the first week
of July to record the follow-up to the
highly-successful Whisper Supremacy. While long-awaited by fans
the band is sure to not let any diehards down
with their new compositions which still retain all of the qualities
Cryptopsy have become renown for, and
then some. Once again utilizing producer (and Obliveon guitarist)
Pierre Remillard at the famed Studio Victor
the record is expected to be released on Oct. 31 and goes by the
title And Then You'll Beg.
EYEHATEGOD
from: www.centurymedia.com
Eyehategod have just completed the final mixes to their latest
album at New Orleans' Balance Studios. This is their
first new studio recording since 1996's Dopesick. Ironically, for
all you trivia buffs, the mixing board at the studio
is the same one used on the Kansas classic "Carry On (Wayward Sons)".
The new disc, entitled Confederacy
Of Ruined Lives, will be released in October. The band has also
assembled a collection of live performances,
dubbed 10 Years Of Abuse And Still Broke, to be released next year.
Expect Eyehategod to be back on the
road soon as they are already planning some imminent dates.
KRISIUN
from: www.centurymedia.com
The three brothers in Krisiun are abiding by the quote "no rest
for the wicked" as they are touring endlessly in
support of their new album The Conquerors Of Armageddon.. Having
already completed two US and two
European runs supporting the record the band are currently overseas
playing some shows, including the
With Full Force Festival, after which the group will be heading
back for three weeks of South American shows
all over their homeland of Brazil, as well as Chile and Argentina.
And finally, Krisiun will be back in the US
August 2nd for a month of dates with Cannibal Corpse, Nile and
The Crown.
OLD MAN'S CHILD
from: www.centurymedia.com
Revelation 666: The Curse Of Damnation, the fourth album from Old
Man's Child, is this Norwegian combo's
best-selling effort yet. Filled with a darker and more maniacal
and twisted sound Galder and company have
unleashed their finest effort. Produced by Peter Tagtgren at Abyss
Studios (Dimmu Borgir, Immortal) the album
are receiving heaps of praise from underground supporters as well
as press and metal radio. Recently completing
a European tour alongside Gorgoroth, Asphyx, Krisiun and Soul Reaper,
the band were lucky enough to have the
services of Emperor drummer Trym behind the kit. The group are
rehearsing and hope to hit the US sometime
before the end of the year.
ROTTING CHRIST
from: www.centurymedia.com
Rotting Christ's new effort will definitely surprise listeners
because on Khronos they have assuredly gone back to
a nastier and more vicious attack as opposed to the gothic leanings
found on their last two albums, The Sleep Of
Angels and A Dead Poem. Some titles from their forthcoming disc
(due out August 29th) include "Thou Art Blind",
"If It Ends Tomorrow", "My Sacred Path", "Art Of Sin", "Law Of
The Serpent", "You Are I", "Time Stands Still",
"Glory Of Sadness", a cover of "Lucifer Over London" and more.
MORBID ANGEL
from: www.earache.com
Global death metal leaders MORBID ANGEL have unveiled " GATEWAYS
TO ANNIHILATION " as the title
for their forthcoming new album and have solidified details for
their upcoming appearance at the Wacken Open
Air Festival in Germany on August 5th. Produced by both the band
and Jim Morris at Morrisound Studios in
Tampa, FL, "GATEWAYS TO ANNIHILATION" is destined to exponentially
further the death metal genre as
only Morbid Angel can. " Jim did a fantastic job ", stated vocalist
and bassist Steve Tucker. " He helped to
make this record everything we wanted and beyond." Song titles
include " At One With Nothing ",
" Opening Of The Gates ", and " Secured Limitations." Album artwork
is being handled by Dan Seagrave,
who also painted the cover of the band's classic " Altars Of Madness
" album. "We're very proud of this record,"
continued Tucker. " The album takes a very paganistic point
of view and signifies the opening of a new door: the
entering of a new state of mind and being. This is what Morbid
Angel is about in the year 2000."
Additionally, Morbid Angel is scheduled to appear at the Wacken
Open Air Festival in Germany on August 5th
where they will debut several new songs. " GATEWAYS
TO ANNIHILATION " is scheduled for a
worldwide release on 25 September.
ABIGOR
from: www.napalmrecords.com
The 5-track MCD from ABIGOR, including the talked about covers
from KREATOR and SLAYER, as well as
other rarities, is scheduled for an August release. Shortly thereafter,
ABIGOR returns to the studio to record their
follow up to "Channeling The Quintessence of Satan". As many of
you may know, the original drummer
for ABIGOR has left the band due to irreconcilable differences,
or so the saying goes! NAPALM RECORDS
wishes T.T. all the best in his new endeavors, as well as welcomes
ABIGOR's newest addition, session
drummer Moritz Neuner (DORNENREICH, EVENFALL, and KOROVA).
DYING FETUS
from: www.relapse.com
Dying Fetus have signed to Relapse Records! Their Relapse
debut Destroy The Opposition will be released in
October and promises to be one of the heaviest death metal releases
of the year! The band just returned from a
short tour of Europe that included an appearance at the Fuck The
Commerce Festival in Germany and are currently
finishing up recording Destroy The Opposition at Hit and Run Studios.
EXHUMED
from: www.relapse.com
Mega gore-metallers EXHUMED have completed work on their
upcoming CD, "Slaughtercult". "Slaughtercult"
will be released on August 15th, 2000. Vokillist/guitarist Matt
Harvey comments, "This album is a death sentence
for all the poseurs out there content to hide in the trees with
bullshit instruments like keyboards, violins, accordions,
drum sequencers, over produced bullshit or whatever the fuck they're
trying to call Metal these days.
"Slaughtercult" is dedicated to their total destruction and the
complete rule of Dead heavy, Dead evil, DEATH METAL...
This is easily our most in-your-face, over-the-top release ever,
so kneel, die, or get the fuck out of the way..."
REGURGITATE
from: www.relapse.com
Regurgitate will record a couple of new songs for an upcoming
split 7" with the Japan's Gore Beyond Necropsy. It´ll be released
by No Weak Shit Records (Texas) in early 2001. Expect some fast, loud and
noisy shit from both bands!
SOILENT GREEN
from: www.relapse.com
Tentative plans see the band entering the studio around August.
Expect the new full-length from NOLA's finest in
early 2001 with a European tour to coincide! Longtime guitarist
Donovan Punch has left the band and has been
replaced by Ben Stout(of Goatwhore). Word has it that Donovan will
still contribute to the writing process.
VILE
from: www.relapse.com
Has recently parted ways with drummer Mike Hamilton, and
are now searching for a replacement. Interested parties
that can deliver the goods should get in contact with Colin Davis
(guitars) directly at: vileguy@netzero.com.
You can
also check them out on-line at www.vilestench.com.
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