ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott has posted the following message on the band's web site: "Hey ya'll..we're in Texas! And it's fuckin' awesome! The show last night in Houston was really great as we got to play 2 more songs (due to a situation with HATEBREED)...so it was 8 songs instead of the usual 6 ...
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ARCH ENEMY founder/guitarist Mike Amott recently told Canada's Chart Attack that some fans take their favorite bands so seriously, they end up becoming a bigger pain in the ass than self-important journalists and their mocking questions. "Heavy metal fans are such bitches," he half-joked. "I hate our fans sometimes! They're so adamant about what they ...
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HATEBREED's "Rise Of Brutality" has shifted 32,515 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 30 on The Billboard 200 chart. The follow-up to last year's "Perseverance" was recorded at Planet Z studios in Massachusetts with producer Zeuss (SHADOWS FALL, SWORN ENEMY) and was mixed at Armoury Studios in Vancouver, B.C. ...
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ANAL CUNT frontman Seth Putnam reportedly caused SIX FEET UNDER singer Chris Barnes to cut short his band's headlining performance at The Living Room in Providence, Rhode Island on October 24 by screaming obscenities at the former CANNIBAL CORPSE vocalist and challenging him to a fight. The following is Putnam's account of the incident, as ...
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ARCH ENEMY have been invited to open for HATEBREED at Stoney's in Reno, Nevada on November 22. Says ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott, "The guys from HATEBREED (who have been super-cool with us, by the way — they've really helped us out a lot on [the Jagermeister] tour!) have invited us to support them at ...
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HATEBREED's video for the track "This Is Now" has been posted online. Check it out: Windows Media, Real Media. "This Is Now" comes off the group's third album, "The Rise Of Brutality", which was released on October 28 through Republic/Universal Records. The follow-up to last year's "Perseverance" was recorded at Planet ...
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CORETEZ, the new band featuring former ILL NINO members Roger Vasquez and Marc Rizzo (SOULFLY), will make their live debut on November 13 at The Downtown in Farmingdale, New York. Also performing on the bill will be BLOODSIMPLE (featuring VISION OF DISORDER members Tim Williams (vocals) and Mike Kennedy (guitar), along with ex-MEDICATION bassist Kyle ...
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RAG MEN, the New York-based band featuring frontman Jorge Rosado (MERAUDER, GOD IS I), guitarist Mitts (SKARHEAD, CROWN OF THORNZ), bassist Ian "Bulldog" Edwards (FREYA, ex-EARTH CRISIS), and drummer Rigg Ross (SKARHEAD, ex-HATEBREED), have signed a North American record deal with Eulogy Records. The group's self-titled debut CD is scheduled for release in February. Download ...
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Hundreds of photos of SLAYER, HATEBREED, DRY KILL LOGIC and ARCH ENEMY, taken at their gig at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts last Friday (October 17), have been posted online at this location. ...
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More information has surfaced about "Archetype", FEAR FACTORY's contribution to the forthcoming "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" soundtrack, due on November 4 through Nitrus Records. The track, which was composed by the group's bassist-turned-guitarist Christian Olde Wolbers and drummer Raymond Herrera and features lyrics written by frontman Burton C. Bell, was self-produced at the band's own recording ...
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A HATEBREED "jukebox player", featuring streaming versions of the tracks "Live For This", "Doomsayer" and "This Is Now", can be accessed online at this location. All three cuts come off the group's third album, "The Rise Of Brutality", due on October 28 through Republic/Universal Records. The follow-up to last year's "Perseverance" was recorded ...
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SLAYER guitarist Kerry King recently spoke to Guitar.com about the group's long-awaited box set, "Soundtrack To The Apocalypse", due on November 25 through American Recordings/Ume. "There's tons of stuff on there," he said. "The problem was that we had too much stuff. I've got five big Tupperware boxes — the big storage boxes that you ...
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Sweden's ARCH ENEMY have announced brand-new tour dates in the U.K. leading up to the Christmas K! Fest. Special guests at the gigs will be U.K. Satanic black/death metal band AKERCOCKE. The dates are as follows: Dec. 16 – Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts Dec. 17 – Leeds, UK @ Cockpit Dec. 18 – Birmingham, ...
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RAG MEN, the New York-based band featuring frontman Jorge Rosado (MERAUDER, GOD IS I), guitarist Mitts (SKARHEAD, CROWN OF THORNZ), bassist Ian "Bulldog" Edwards (FREYA, ex-EARTH CRISIS), and drummer Rigg Ross (SKARHEAD, ex-HATEBREED), have signed a European record deal with Gangstyle Records. The group's debut album is scheduled for release in January. Download the track ...
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Relapse Records recording artists MASTODON have completed work on their first music video — for the track "March of the Fire Ants" off their acclaimed release "Remission". The clip was shot in the band's hometown of Atlanta with director Chad Rullman (NEUROSIS) and is said to be a "surreal narrative" incorporating principal photography, and featuring ...
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SLAYER's long-awaited four-disc box set "The Soundtrack To The Apocalypse" will now surface on November 25, according to a source close to the band. The set will include album tracks, live material and soundtrack contributions. As previously reported, SLAYER have written seven songs for a new album they hope to have out early next year. ...
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HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta recently spoke to Chart Attack about his plans for the band's new video, "This Is Now". The shoot went down on October 1 at the Float Nightclub in New York City. "It's gonna be kind of like a two-part video," Jasta said. "Just sort of like all the mayhem from the ...
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PANTERA, FEAR FACTORY, STATIC-X and SOIL are among the artists featured on "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Album", the soundtrack to the upcoming remake of the classic '70s horror flick. Based loosely on true events that inspired the original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", the new film centers around a group of friends whose free-spirited roadtrip ...
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HATEBREED's third album, "The Rise Of Brutality", will be released in Australia by Roadrunner Records. An Australian release date for the CD has yet to be announced. As previously reported, "The Rise Of Brutality" — due in the U.S. on October 28 through Republic/Universal Records — was recorded at Planet Z studios in Massachusetts with ...
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HATEBREED have finalized the track listing for their new album, "The Rise Of Brutality", due on October 28 through due on October 28 through Republic/Universal Records. "The Rise Of Brutality" was recorded at Planet Z studios in Massachusetts with producer Zeuss (SHADOWS FALL, SWORN ENEMY) and was mixed at Armoury Studios in Vancouver, B.C. with ...
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BIOHAZARD/AMONG THIEVES drummer Danny Schuler is currently laying down the drums for the forthcoming EP from CORETEZ, the new project featuring former ILL NINO members Roger Vasquez (guitar) and Marc Rizzo (percussion). In other CORETEZ news, the song "Five Months" will be appearing on the upcoming "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" soundtrack along with songs from PANTERA, ...
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A brand new HATEBREED track, titled "This Is Now", has been posted online in streaming audio. Check it out: Windows Media, Real Audio. "This Is Now" comes off the group's third album, "The Rise Of Brutality", due on October 28 through Republic/Universal Records. "The Rise Of Brutality" was recorded at Planet ...
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"Headbanger's Ball", the resurrected metal program that had an eight-year run between 1987 and 1995, has been expanded to include half-hour, unhosted blocks of videos each weekday (Monday–Friday) between 8:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. EST on MTV2. Saturday night's two-hour show, hosted by HATEBREED singer Jamey Jasta, remains in place at 10:00 p.m. EST. ...
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Wayne Static and Tripp Eisen from STATIC-X will be guests on this weekend's edition of MTV2 "Headbanger's Ball". The two of them will be there to talk about their new album "Shadow Zone", and premiere their video for "The Only". In addition to being a guest this weekend, Static will be hosting "Headbanger's Ball" on ...
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The complete track listing has been announced for the first-ever "MTV2 Headbanger's Ball" album, due on October 7 through Roadrunner Records. The "MTV2 Headbanger's Ball" album will feature 40 tracks on 2 CDs for the cost of just one. The first disc will feature "unit movers" from the hard rock scene, the big names who've ...
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SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo has finished laying down his tracks for the fourth GRIP INC. album, according to a post on his official web site. The follow-up to 1999's "Solidify" is being recorded at Woodhouse Studio in Hagen, Germany and is tentatively due in early 2004 through SPV/Steamhammer Records in Europe, JVC Records in Japan ...
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New York hardcore heavyweights MADBALL, whose curent lineup consists of Freddy Cricien on vocals, Hoya Roc on bass, Mitts (SKARHEAD, RAG MEN) on guitars, and Rigg Ross (SKARHEAD, ex-HATEBREED) on drums, have completed work on a new four-song EP, titled "NYHC", at Big Blue Meanie Studios in Hoboken, New Jersey for a January 27, 2004 ...
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SLAYER's long-awaited four-disc box set "The Soundtrack To The Apocalypse" will finally surface on November 11. The set will include album tracks, live material and soundtrack contributions. "We still have to sit down and talk about how to set up the discs," bassist/vocalist Tom Araya told Rolling Stone. "We have soundtrack songs that haven't been ...
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SLIPKNOT's Joey Jordison has laid down drum tracks for two songs on the forthcoming OTEP album, tentatively titled "Suicide Trees". Jordison reportedly appears on the cuts with the working titles "Nine" and "Hate". The CD, which is currently being recorded in Los Angeles, will be mixed in October and is tentatively due in the spring ...
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The Jagermeister Fall Music Tour is coming, and heavy metal icons, SLAYER, will lead the assault! Produced and promoted by Clear Channel Entertainment, the tour will let loose on October 8th in Minneapolis, MN and finish up in Los Angeles on November 29th. SLAYER's recent release of their live DVD, "War at the Warfield" (American ...
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