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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San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB, who had previously announced plans to take a hiatus following the completion of their recent West Coast mini-tour, have been asked to join the Jagermeister trek (headlined by SLAYER) for a week-and-a-half's worth of dates in early November. "This has come to us as a total shock!" SKINLAB frontman ...
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SLAYER guitarist Kerry King will appear on "The New Tom Green Show" tonight, Tuesday, August 26. The show will air tonight on MTV from midnight to 1:00 a.m. In other news, more dates have been announced for the upcoming Jagermeister North American tour, featuring SLAYER, HATEBREED and ARCH ENEMY. Confirmed dates so far are as ...
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More dates have been announced for the upcoming Jagermeister North American tour, featuring SLAYER, HATEBREED and ARCH ENEMY. According to Ticketmaster and Clear Channel, the two-month-long trek will make the following stops: Oct. 08 - St. Paul, MN @ Roy Wilkins Auditorium Oct. 24 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre & Ballroom Oct. 30 - ...
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The first two dates have been announced for the upcoming Jagermeister North American tour, featuring SLAYER, HATEBREED and ARCH ENEMY. According to Ticketmaster, the two-month-long trek will make the following stops: Oct. 30 - Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom Nov. 21 - San Diego, CA @ 4th and B More dates will be released during ...
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The soundtrack album is such a tired marketing ploy these days that it takes a lot for one to be truly interesting or exciting. Of course, even the term "soundtrack" is usually a misnomer: most of the songs you hear on these albums have little or nothing to do with the movie, and are frequently ...
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HATEBREED have set "The Rise Of Brutality" as the title for their third album, 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 Mike Fraser (METALLICA, AC/DC). HATEBREED ...
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HATE ETERNAL bassist Jared Anderson has left the band in order to commit himself to rehabilitation for a drug problem. The following is Anderson's official statement on the matter: "Due to a continuous ongoing drug problem for the last couple of years, I've committed myself to rehabilitation. I will be leaving HATE ETERNAL due to ...
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Relapse Records recording artists MASTODON have announced their fourth U.S. tour in support of their latest album, "Remission". MASTODON will team up with CLUTCH for two-week span beginning August 29 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The tour is scheduled to conclude September 14 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with additional dates pending. MASTODON, fresh off their ...
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A man was stabbed during a HATEBREED concert Thursday night (July 24) at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, according to WPRI Fox Providence. Two young men started fighting over a woman around 9:00 p.m. and one of them stabbed the other in the stomach with a folding knife. The wound was minor, ...
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SLAYER have already written 10 songs for their next studio album, tentatively due before April 2004, the group revealed to MTV.com. Five of the songs have been jammed out by guitarist Kerry King and drummer Dave Lombardo, two other have been penned by guitarist Jeff Hanneman and recorded using a drum machine, and the remaining ...
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Daniel Oppenheimer of the Valley Advocate is reporting that "when MTV resurrected their heavy metal show 'Headbanger's Ball' in May of this year, guest host METALLICA played 17 videos. Of those, three were from Springfield [Massachusetts]-area bands: STAIND, SHADOWS FALL and KILLSWITCH ENGAGE. Another was from GODSMACK, out of Boston, and another from HATEBREED, out ...
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HATE ETERNAL were forced to postpone their previously announced European tour from September to January because of scheduling conflicts brought about by their recently confirmed participation in the Rise Of Brutality 2 U.S. trek. The latter tour, which will be headlined by HATEBREED and will also include appearances by MADBALL, TERROR and CEPHALIC CARNAGE, will ...
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According to www.hatebreedtour.com, HATEBREED have been confirmed for the fall 2003 edition of the Jagermeister tour, featuring SLAYER in the headlining slot. The trek will reportedly kick off on October 9 and will conclude on December 10. Exact dates and venues will be announced soon. HATEBREED, who are currently mixing their as-yet-untitled third ...
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Roadrunner Records is pleased to announce the launch of an ongoing series of CD releases, henceforth dubbed "The Roots Of Roadrunner". On September 22, 2003, the initial SEVEN CDs will hit stores near you, each with introductory liner notes by a fellow musician fan of the band. Without further ado: the initial "Roots…" and their ...
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SOULFLY have been forced to postpone their previously announced tour of Russia due to last weekend's suicide bombing at a rock concert in Moscow that resulted in the deaths of 14 people. A letter from the Russian police to the tour's organizers requesting the cancellation of the dates reads as follows: "Considering the rising amount ...
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According to a posting on DEATH's official web site (www.emptywords.org), current "Headbanger's Ball" host Jamey Jasta (also lead vocalist of HATEBREED) has "convinced" the show's producers to play DEATH's video for "The Philisopher" on the this weekend's episode. The show will air Saturday, July 5 at 10:00 p.m. EST on MTV2. ...
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New and previously unreleased tunes from SLIPKNOT and ILL NINO, and a collaboration between Mike Patton and SEPULTURA will be featured on the soundtrack to "Freddy Vs. Jason", due on August 5 through Roadrunner Records. SLIPKNOT's "Snap" was originally recorded during the sessions for the group's eponymously titled debut but was never released, while ILL ...
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For the first time in its 16-year history, Holland's Waldrock festival is completely sold out. 12,000 tickets have been sold for the event, which is set to take place on June 21 in Burgum. The list of artists currently confirmed to appear at the festival is as follows: IRON MAIDEN TYPE O NEGATIVE H.I.M. SEPULTURA ...
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