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Sweden’s VISCERAL BLEEDING will be releasing their second CD through Retribute. Expect an early 2004 release featuring songs like ‘Fed To The Dogs’, ‘Merely Parts Remain’, ‘Fire Took His Face’ and ‘Clenched Fist Obedience’. The band is also looking for shows at the moment, specifically in Holland, Belgium and Germany between November 06, 2003 and November 09, 2003. Check out www.visceralbleeding.com for more information.
KARMAGEDDON MEDIA (ex-Hammerheart Records; for further details see yesterdays news) will put out several albums within the next couple of months. Here’s the exact release schedule. October 06, 2003: TORTURE KILLER – "For Maggots To Devour" CD and NOCTURNUS – "The Nocturnus Demos" digi-CD. October 20, 2003: AETERNUS – "Beyond The Wandering Moon" CD, "… And So The Night Became" CD, "Shadows Of Old" CD and "Ascension Of Terror" CD (all remastered with new artwork and bonustracks). November 03, 2003: MORIFADE – "Domination" digi-CD / CD and TRIBUTE TO POSSESSED – "Seven Gates Of Horror" digi-CD. November 17, 2003: TRIBUTE TO EURONYMOUS – "Nordic Metal" CD, NILE – "In The Beginning" digi-CD, DIMMU BORGIR / OLD MAN’S CHILD – "Sons Of Satan Gather For Attack" CD and SEPTIC FLESH – "Sumerian Daemons" CD. And in early 2004 new albums of DISMEMBER, CRUACHAN, ARTHEMESIA, WITHIN Y and many more.
Holland’s HAMMERHEART RECORDS is no more! Here’s an official press statement from Guido Heijnens: "After months of thinking, talking, evaluating plans and contracts HAMMERHEART RECORDS have decided to call it a day!!! But we are not simply leaving all this behind… how could we ever??? Both owners Peter van Ool and Guido Heijnens have decided to re-start a new label under the name KARMAGEDDON MEDIA!!! Of course with the same quality and impact as Hammerheart Records used to have. Why? We simply got a bit tired of some of the things happening in the music-industry, especially the attitude of some people was too much for us, we had to change things drastically or stopping was the only option. We ran into problems and what I would call "anti-social" behaviour too often and frequently. This new label is done in very close co-operation with PLASTIC HEAD DISTRIBUTION, who will exclusively distribute KARMAGEDDON MEDIA starting October 1st 2003. We feel secure and positive that under the wings of our big independent brothers working at PLASTIC HEAD DISTRIBUTION we get more chances to develop and grow in a steady and reliable way. The artists and the catalogue of HAMMERHEART RECORDS are transferred to KARMAGEDDON MEDIA and we will soon inform everyone on our release-schedule. Be prepared for new killer albums by DISMEMBER, CRUACHAN, MORIFADE, TORTURE KILLER etc."
The band line-up of 2004’s installment of BANG YOUR HEAD FESTIVAL gains shape rapidly. The first ten of an overall of 22 bands for that event taking place at the Messegelände of Balingen on the 25th and 26th of June are booked. The latest acts to join that lineup are GOTTHARD, 80s US Metal legend RUFFIANS (the former band of late VICIOUS RUMORS-singer Carl Albert) and British Melodic Rockers MAGNUM, who were to play at Balingen back in 2002 but had to cancel their show due to health problems of guitarist Tony Clarkin. By now, the list of artists set to perform at the BANG YOUR HEAD!!!-festival 2004 at Balingen, Germany, 25th / 26th of June, reads like this: GOTTHARD, PRIMAL FEAR, MAGNUM, LILLIAN AXE, ANGEL, BLAZE, OMEN, CAGE, MAJESTY, RUFFIANS. All further details about the BANG YOUR HEAD!!! may be found at the BYH!!! – homepage at www.bang-your-head.de. Tickets are availaible at ticket-hotline (+49-74 57-9 13 93) and pretty soon via the homepage as well. Details about ordering may be found there as well. Prices will be 55, – Euro (plus shipping) at presales. Tickets are limited to a number of 22000. By this it the organisators want to ensure that the special and relaxed atmosphere of the event won’t suffer.
On the 3rd of November Metal Blade Records will release a CANNIBAL CORPSE boxset entitled "15 Year Killing Spree" to celebrate the band’s 15th birthday. The set will include three CDs and one DVD. This boxset WILL NOT be released in Germany! It will be released in all other countries, but not in Germany for reasons everybody knows if you look at the tracklist, which goes like this: Disc One – "Best Of Volume 1": ‘Shredded Humans’, ‘Put Them To Death’, ‘Born In A Casket’, ‘A Skull Full Of Maggots’, ‘Gutted’, ‘Covered With Sores’, ‘Vomit The Soul’, ‘Hammer Smashed Face’, ‘Addicted To Vaginal Skin’, ‘The Cryptic Stench’, ‘Staring Through The Eyes Of The Dead’, ‘Stripped, Raped And Strangled’, ‘The Pick-Axe Murders’, ‘The Bleeding’, ‘Zero The Hero’. Disc Two – "Best Of Volume 2": ‘Devoured By Vermin’, ‘Disfigured’, ‘Monolith’, ‘I Will Kill You’, ‘Sentenced To Burn’, ‘Gallery Of Suicide’, ‘Dead Human Collection’, ‘The Spine Splitter’, ‘Pounded Into Dust’, ‘I Cum Blood’ – Live, ‘Fucked With A Knife’ – Live, ‘Unleashing The Bloodthirsty’ – Live, ‘Meathook Sodomy’ – Live, ‘Savage Butchery’, ‘Pit Of Zombies’, ‘Sanded Faceless’, ‘Systematic Elimination’. Disc Three – Previously unreleased material: "89 Demo": ‘A Skull Full Of Maggots’, ‘The Undead Will Feast’, ‘Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains’, ‘Put Them To Death’, ‘Bloody Chunks’. "Created To Kill" sessions: ‘Unburied Horror’, ‘Mummified In Barbed Wire’, ‘Gallery Of The Obscene’, ‘To Kill Myself’, ‘Bloodlands’, ‘Puncture Wound Massacre’, ‘Devoured By Vermin’. "Gallery Of Suicide" demo: ‘Chambers Of Blood’, ‘Dismembered And Molested’, ‘Gallery Of Suicide’, ‘Unite The Dead’, ‘Crushing The Despised’, ‘Headless’. Cover songs: ‘Bethany Home (A Place To Die)’, ‘Endless Pain’, ‘Behind Bars’. Disc Four (DVD) – "1st Live Cannibal Corpse Show 1989": ‘Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains’, ‘The Undead Will Feast’, ‘Escape The Torment’, ‘Bloody Chunks’, ‘Enter At Your Own Risk’, ‘Put Them To Death’, ‘A Skull Full Of Maggots’. "Butchered At Birth" studio footage 1991: Drum sessions & bass guitar overdub. "Cannibal Corpse Eats Moscow Alive 1993": ‘Shredded Humans’, ‘The Cryptic Stench’, ‘Meathook Sodomy’, ‘Edible Autopsy’, ‘I Cum Blood’, ‘Gutted’, ‘Entrails Ripped From A Virgin’s Cunt’, ‘Beyond The Cemetery’, ‘A Skull Full Of Maggots’. "Live At The Palace In Hollywood, CA 2002": ‘From Skin To Liquid’, ‘Savage Butchery’, ‘Devoured By Vermin’, ‘Stripped, Raped And Strangled’, ‘Disposal Of The Body’, ‘Pounded Into Dust’, ‘Addicted To Vaginal Skin’, ‘Meathook Sodomy’, ‘Pit Of Zombies’, ‘Hammer Smashed Face’. All further info at: www.cannibalcorpse.net
Florida’s CONTORTED are currently recording their debut album for Still Dead Productions. The title of the album is gonna be "Of Worldly Sins" and some song titles are: ‘Carnage Of Withered Remains’, ‘Hellish Miscreant’, ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ etc.
KONKHRA have just confirmed their headlining European Tour as well as their first ever performance in Israel, on Oct. 16th as part of the Metalist Festival. The tour hits the following countries so far: Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. The band is currently in the process of negotiating offers from Greece and South Africa. Check out www.konkhra.com for all further details.
According to www.moonfog.com, several of Moonfog’s most prominent artists are currently in the studio. DHG (Dodheimsgard) and GEHENNA have started recording their new albums, KHOLD are currently in pre-production for their next output and new Moonfog signees DISIPLIN are also presently in the studio to record their debut.
Drummer Sean Reinert (CYNIC, DEATH, GORDION KNOT) has rejoined AGHORA (www.aghora.org) and will record the band’s new album with them in L.A. this fall. The band will also now feature female vocalist Susie Green. Her and Danishta Rivero will exchange vocals on the new album, due out in early 2004.
UNMOORED‘s former lead guitarist, Tomas Johansson, has rejoined the band. Their new album, "Indefinite Soul-Extension", is due out through Code666 on October 27th. The band’s website, www.unmoored.com, is up and running again after server changes.
HANDFUL OF HATE are ready to unleash their new album, "ViceCrown". Artwork on the release comes from state-of-the-art studio www.NeonTrinityKill.com. The album is set for release on October 27th through Code666. A full UK tour will follow shortly after. See the band’s new official website at: www.handfulofhate.com
Norway’s ATROX plan to shoot a video to promote the release of their brand new album, "Orgasm", due out through Code666 on October 27th. The albums artwork comes courtesy of Atrox lead singer Monika Edvarsen. For more on the band go to: www.atrox-web.com
ZYKLON‘s official website, www.zyklontribe.com, reports that the US release of the band’s forthcoming "Aeon" album has been pushed back to September 23rd. In related news, Zyklon have just completed a video for the track ‘Psyklon Aeon’, from the new album. The clip will premier at "Aeon"’s release party in Oslo, Norway on September 19th. Also performing at the party are VOID and DISIPLIN.
DARKNESS ETERNAL bassist George will be playing session bass for Mexican / Chicago death mongers THE CHASM. The shows will take place on September 19th and 20th in Cudahy, WI and Chicago, IL, respectively. For more details please visit The Chasm’s official website, located at (www.enterthedeathcult.com).
According to a post by bassist Henka T. Blacksmith on CHILDREN OF BODOM‘s official website, SINERGY guitarist Roope Latvala has stepped in to replace Alexander Kuoppala, who recently quit the band for personal reasons. Latvala is not a full time member (as yet); he has simply agreed to fill in until the end of the "Hate Crew Deathroll" tour, which winds up at the end of the year.
DESTRUCTION release their "Metal Discharge" album in Europe on September 22nd through Nuclear Blast. The first edition 2CD set features bonus cover songs and rare demos.
MORBID ANGEL‘s "Heretic" album will be released on 2LP and limited edition 2CD sets through Earache on September 22nd.
MORRIGAN are currently recording their third CD "Celts", which is supposed to be released in December 2003 / January 2004 on the band’s own label Horns Of Cernunos Prod. Later on there is also gonna be a re-release of MAYHEMIC TRUTH’s "In Memoriam" CD (with different artwork and bonus material), a MORRIGAN / SARGATANAS split 7"EP and maybe some releases of other bands as well. For more info write to balor@freenet.de or visit www.morrigan.org
Swedish Death Metal maniacs INSISION are currently working on new material for their forthcoming second album for Wicked World / Earache Records, which will hopefully be released in early 2004. At this point the band has the following seven songs finished: ‘Havoc’, ‘Immanent Vision’, ‘No Belief’, ‘Plague Mass’, ‘The Foul Smell Of Humans’, ‘In The Gallows’ and ‘… And We’ll Wash It All Away’. For further info go to: www.insision.com
Poland’s Still Dead Productions is going to release a 6-song MCD by EVISICIUM within the next months. The disc will be entitled "Underneath The Buried" and contains the band’s three demo songs (totally re-mastered with new vocal tracks though) as well as three brandnew tunes. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Buzzard Feeding Frenzy’, ‘Underneath The Buried’, ‘Relapse Into Darkness’, ‘Cannibal Jihad’, ‘Ribspreader’ and ‘Unmarked Grave’. In case you still don’t know – EVISCIUM is the new band of former ROTTREVORE guitarist / vocalist Mark Mastro and DERKETA’s guitarist / vocalist Sharon Baskovsky (who’s playing bass now). All further info at: www.eviscium.com
SEVERE TORTURE have recruited an extra guitarplayer to their line-up: "We met Marvin (Blo.Torch) during the Cannibal Corpse tour last year were he played (guest) guitar for Dew-Scented. Currently we are writing stuff for the upcoming album based on 2 guitars and it sounds absolutely killer!!!" Unfortunately Severe Torture will not be able to participate on the re-scheduled European tour with Hate Eternal and Dying Fetus in January 2004.
After this year’s BANG YOUR HEAD FESTIVAL with acts such as TWISTED SISTER, DIO, AMON AMARTH, HYPOCRISY, OVERKILL, HIRAX, DESTRUCTOR and many others, the most relaxed festival among the big German ones already presents the first confirmed acts for next year. The list of artists set to perform at the BANG YOUR HEAD!!!-festival 2004 at Balingen, Germany, 25th / 26th of June, so far: PRIMAL FEAR, LILIAN AXE, ANGEL, BLAZE, OMEN, CAGE and MAJESTY. All further details about the festival may be found at the BYH-homepage at www.bang-your-head.de. Tickets are available at the ticket-hotline (+49-74 57-9 13 93) and pretty soon via the homepage as well. Details about ordering may be found there as well. Prices will be 55, – Euro (plus shipping) at presales. Tickets are limited to a number of 22000. By this the organisators want to ensure that the special and relaxed atmosphere of the event won’t suffer.