Friday
July 28th 2000
POD captured the #1 spot with
Rock The Party on MTV US's Total Request Live this Wednesday! P.O.D. became the first
artist in Atlantic Records history to go #1, and only the third Rock act in TRL history to
hit #1. The band members were guests of the show the day before. POD likes to thank all
the people who kept on voting for them. If you want to continue to support them, go to MTV. Click Play My
Song and vote for their Rock The Party! Just like TRL the band wants to take the album
(Fundamental Elements Of Southtown) to #1 on Billboard Top 200. Special TRL message from
Sonny (from P.O.D.'s tour bus -Where they are currently on the Ozzfest Tour): "What's
up fellow warriors? Words can't explain what we feel at this moment! You
have proven far and beyond your loyalty to your faith and to your GOD. You all are
making history in this industry right now. You have accomplished the inconceivable.
Who would have ever guessed that we (you and us) would be number 1on TRL?
It's because of you guys and your dedication to your GOD and your hearts desire to see the
LOVE of GOD shine upon a confused and hurting world that we are making a difference.
This world has nothing to offer us. We are setting new grounds that command
recognition and respect for our beliefs. There is no one more loyal and more
dedicated than you, and this industry has no choice but to recognize your passion and your
dedication to this movement. GOD has shined his face so bright on us this day,
and we are forever grateful for such an undeserved favor. Because of you, a message
of LOVE has gone forth today to all the world. To all the world I believe that we
have done exactly what GOD expects of us.We have shown the unconditional, graceful,
compassionate, understanding LOVE that only GOD can give. To HIM we are forever
grateful. You are truly a blessing to us. There is no one out there like you
guys. You continue to prove that daily through your actions and your prayers.
Your commitment to your faith has proven strong, and nobody can deny that. GOD has
and will continue to get the Glory for everything that has been done and will be done as
long as he continues to use us in this industry. Our prayers of LOVE go out to you
on the daily, because we know that GOD has used you to do exactly his good and perfect
will. You guys amaze us everyday. Again I say, there is no one like you
guys. Together we have accomplished the impossible. And we will do so as long as GOD
permits. Hugs and Holy kisses to every single one of you for making this possible.
Thank you so much for your faithfulness and your LOVE. Much LOVE and respect to all of you
from all of us at the P.O.D. headquarters. Who knows, what could happen next?
GOD BLESS you Brothas and Sistas. May GOD continue to use you to shine on a world
that needs you so much. FOREVER PRAISED the SON of GOD, CHRIST JESUS.......we
love you guys.....till next time, keep doing what your doing.......sonny(payable
on death)-"
The Celldweller CD should be available in
November. This project by Klayton will be recorded in Detroit and New York while the whole
process will take three months.
News from Living Sacrifice: The tentative
release date for The Hammering Process is November 7th.
The guys in Zao will be heading
into the studio August 1st to record their follow-up to last year's Liberate Te Ex
Inferis.
Through Laceration Productions a
compilation will be released with extreme metal from over the planet. The sampler is
called Screams Of Abbadon. Bands that might appear on it are: Feast Eternal, Israel, Maximum Pentacost, Goredeath, Quejidos Del Seol, Noiz, Grim, Bedata Dezum, Clemency, Pronounced
Dead, Gethsemani, Tortured Conscience, Sculpture, Antidemon, Vaakevandring, Crimson Thorn, Salutary.
Bad news from the Deuteronomium camp: Drummer J-J
Kontoniemi has decided to leave the band after the German tour, so most likely the band
will not play any gigs during 2000 after this tour. As you know vocalist and guitarist
Miika Partala decided to leave Deuteronomium earlier this year. The remaining members of
the band, Manu Lehtinen and Kalle Paju are now searching for a new vocalist, guitarist and
drummer.
The Best of Bride
2000 is a new release from Bride
that contains 12 handpicked favorites from Oddities, The Jesus Experience, and two songs
from The Kentucky Cadillac's (Dale Thompsons solo album). There's also gonna be Bride Live
Volume 2 on M8 Records. This live CD will showcase the acoustic side of the band. M8 has
been instrumental in producing hard to find Bride recordings over the past few years.
Bride Live 2 will be made available through Bride September 6th.
Upcoming is also the new studio-album produced by Plinky Giglio.
Friday
July 21st 2000
Tim Gaines has recently parted
ways with his band SinDizzy to be
able to spend more time in his latest effort with the Irene Kelly band. Irenes CD entitled If You Were Here was
produced by Tim and he feels the CD to be his best overall performance as a bassist and
musician to date. Tim states that lack of interest by band members, lack of label
interest, and direction of the band, prompted his decision to part ways and move on to
other opportunities. Tim has also given up his role as webmaster for Sindizzy.com
and the Sindizzy Discussion Zone. Tim extends to Oz, John and Bobby all of his best wishes
and notes that there are no ill feelings between the band members, and hope they succeed
in their efforts as a band to continue on with their next album.
Restless Records
released the release date for the official Truth album by Michael Sweet. This newer version
of the record will be made available on October 10th 2000. Michael will also release a DVD
of his former band Stryper, but only
through his website. It will contain "Live In Japan", "In The
Beginning" and unreleased live footage.
Bad news from the Stretch Arm Strong front....the
band got to play in San Francisco last week and Chris, the singer, had to fly home and be
with his wife who had to go into surgery unexpected and the rest of the tour had to be
canceled. The band apologizes for this but it couldn't be helped. Please keep
Chris and his family in your thoughts
Jamie Rowe (formerly of Guardian) reports:
"Well, I have had a
cool development this week. I had written a song as a request of a certain
Forefront Records staffer. Low and behold...the song is being tracked in
Nashville with mega producer Mookie Taylor. I am recording some lead vocals but most of
the vocals will be with Toby Mac from DC Talk!! He is also gonna tweak some lyrics with
his 'flava'.Anyway, I am stoked. The song is in the 'Methods Of Mayhem' mode. Forefront is
even considering having the man who mixed that disk mix this song. At this point it will
be on a soundtrack...but also looks like it may end up on a Toby Mac project as well.
We'll see!"
Sally Forth Records says Soapbox is about to release
their full length album. It will be called A Divided Man. They will smoke and burn their
steel once again.
The Spirit That
Guides Us. Emotional hardcore from the Dutch grounds, which sounds familiar, but
different. Hopefully you haven’t thrown away your turntable, because the
release will be on 7 inch vinyl to be released by Sally Forth Records. The
Spirit That Guides Us features members from The Crutch and Subatlantic Starfish. You'll
find this band on the 7 inch together with the Lionheart Brothers.
Speaking of The
Lionheart Brothers. Sally Forth
Records is proud to present the new Sally Family members from the North. They have
their residence in Trondheim, Norway. The label describes them as: "Heavy emotions,
modest guitarplay, once in a while a terrifying and an intoxicated voice characterizes
their music. No songs, but difficult, refreshing sound-structures,who only a few can
construct. Nothing is normal about this band, but if you listen a little bite closer, than
there is nothing more than to fall in love with this effusive, extravagant music of the
Lionheart Brothers. Comparison with Roadside Monument is easy, but these Norwegians give
their own Scandinavian drive to it all." A website of The Lionheart Brothers is expected later this year.
Here’s some
closer information concerning the new Finnish Metal Compilation, volume 2. The bands that
will appear on the CD for sure are: Immortal Souls (melodic death metal) Hallowed (power metal) Worship Factory
(black metal) Tinnitus
(progressive death metal) Children Of Light (death metal) Oratorio (heavy/power metal)
IX-Syndicate (thrash metal) C-Force (power metal) Icon Clan (street rock) Stoner Kings
(stoner rock) and possibly a couple of others too... The album cover picture is painted by
Michael Majalahti. The compilation album will be released in October through Little Rose Productions.
The release date is
set for Under The Northern Sky, the full-length album from Finland's Immortal Souls. The album will
include ten songs, two of them being instrumental songs. It will be out on November 15th
2000. For those of you who can't wait Little
Rose Productions will release a single first on the fourth of September. This
four-song single/EP will be titled The Cleansing. . Other tracks on it will be Icebound,
Prophet and Until. Those three tracks will only appear on this disc. An exciting thing
about the full album is that they’re gonna make the first 500 copies a special
limited edition version, packed in a cool carton box with a sticker in it.
Some update about
the Hallowed EP recording: The Finnish power metallers Hallowed have been spending some
time in studio during this summer recording their debut EP. They have now finished the
recordings and the next step will be the mixing process. This 5-song EP is scheduled to be
out on Little Rose Productions in
October.
Dust Eater Dogs are currently in the
process of mixing and editing their second full album which will be released later this
year. No exact release date is set yet. The new album is gonna include "tons of
full-blooded righteous stumbling rock". A new website for the band is also in the
works....Look also for the upcoming interview with vocalist Benny Majabacka here on Art
For The Ears.
On Monday POD's Rock The Party made a debut
onto MTV's TRL countdown at #4. On Tuesday, MTV reported that Rock The Party held
strong landing the #6 spot on TRL. If you want to support the guys you can still give your
vote, or re-vote, and help them fulfill their dream to be at #1. Vote for Rock The Party
through MTV.
Click Play My Song and vote for their song. It's easy.
Friday
July 14th 2000
The Peacedog Festival added another
hard music band to the line-up of the fest: Death Metal band Sculpture will appear there too.
Peacedog will be held on July 26th at De Kei in Ede, The Netherlands. Other bands playing
are Soapbox, Glorybox, One Truth, The Lionheart
Brothers, Fort Knox and more. Also look for new releases of Soapbox and The Lionheart
Brothers made available at the festival.
This year's Christmas Rock Night is shaping. The
line-up includes bands like: Tourniquet,
Snubnose, The Supertones, Delirious?
and Five Iron Frenzy. The Christmas Rock Night will be held in Ennepetal in Germany on the
8th and 9th of December.
POD is asking for the support of
all their fans to get their video for Rock The Party to the top of MTV's TRL (Total
Request Live). This is what you can do. Vote for Rock The Party through MTV. Click Play My
Song and vote for their song. It's easy.
News from the
Celldweller camp. Mastermind Klayton (also known for Circle Of Dust) will be going to Detroit at the end of the month to
complete the recording of the upcoming full-length Celldweller CD. The recording and
mixing will be a three-month long process. The CD will be available through the
Celldweller website soon after its completion. Nearly all of the material has been written
for the new release. The last three songs Klayton has written are Stay With Me,
Uncrowned and Under My Feet. As with many of the Celldweller songs, Klayton
continues to explore new musical and sonic landscapes. In particular, Under My Feet
starts with an acoustic/vocal section that builds into a majestic choir of percussion and
energy. The song brings yet another angle to the musical mix of Celldweller and will
be a fresh addition to modern music.
Friday
July 7th 2000
Zao will be in the
studio to record their fourth CD for Solid State Records in August. This month the band will be on tour
with Victory Record's Earth Crisis and Buried Alive. Guitarist Russ Cogdell has decided to
leave Zao to go to school.
Spitfire had some bad luck
recently on their tour with Dillinger Escape Plan. Chris, the drummer of Spitfire,
cut his hand pretty bad and had to go to the hospital. Spitfire wanted to apology to
those who came out to see them as they had to cancel a few days to heal and get ready for
Hellfest and Cornerstone.
Friday
June 30th 2000
Sanctuary is organizing a Sanctuary Reunion
Festival in August. Bands that might appear are: Barren Cross, Deliverance, Vengeance,
Recon, Neon Cross, Overdrive, Krush, Triple Ace, Electrik and Jordan. For fans of eighties
and early nineties metal a festival worth checking out.
Method Of Control is
currently in the studio recording their debut release. The CD demo will be a full
length release entitled White Picket Fence and it will feature at least ten tracks of
music. The music has been described as dark and progressive with a hardcore edge.
The line-up consists of Jeff Lain (formerly of Betrayal) performing all instrumentation
and music, as well as some vocals, and Taylor Wells (who sung with Michael Sweet on his solo stuff)
heading up the lead vocal position. The official release date for White Picket
Fence has been preliminarily set at September 1st. See Method Of Control for more
information.
There are rumors saying that Spoken
is breaking up. According to the band this is not the case. Currently they are on tour
with Ember. It is true however that BJ and Ronnie are leaving the band so they are looking
for replacement (drummer and guitarist).
Project 86 announces a Summer U.S.
Tour. P86 will embark on a National headlining tour this Summer with guests Ultraspank and
Liquid Gang. The tour is scheduled to go from end of July to the end of August. If you go
to the Project 86 site you can check out the Tour Journal section, as Andrew comments on
their recent dates with Queensryche.
Here's an inside
scoop for you from The
Rock-Impellitteri Advocacy: Rob Rock has been working hard on some new songs and demos
for the L.A. metal band called Warrior. Rob will be singing on the new Warrior album
and he wrote the majority of the lyrics and melodies on the album. It's being recorded at
the Silver Cloud Studios, the same place where Rage Of Creation was recorded, Rob's solo
endeavor.
On June 26th
Armageddon Holocaust released its one and only album Into Total Destruction through THT
Productions, Indonesia. Armageddon Holocaust is an extreme musical entity consisting
of Dark Doktor, a sole member of Indonesian Black Metal band Bealiah, and Dark Thriller.
They release only one album before the band disbands itself. Jeff from Kekal helped on the solo guitars and
he produced the entire album. Into Total Destruction was recorded & mixed at Jeff's
private home studio VisionStudio. Their musical concept is what they call
Destruction metal with the fastest, most extreme and intense structure of black metal
music. The lyrical concept is focused on the chronological apocalyptic prophecies about
the destruction of the Earth and its false inhabitants.
Tourniquet has been confirmed
to play the Milwaukee Metalfest on
Saturday July 29th. You may know they played the fest before along with Living Sacrifice in 1998. This
year Tourniquet will be on the KQRS (main) Stage.
Friday
June 23rd 2000
There will be
another Finnish Metal Compilation, entitled The Metal Rose Collection. The album is
scheduled to be out in August, and at least ten bands will appear on this Little Rose Productions release.
Stretch Arm Strong
is doing their European tour. The band also has a European only release coming out
to celebrate the band's tour. The 7"/MCD is called It Burns Clean and can be
ordered from Reflections
Friday
June 16th 2000
Threshold will return to the Thin Ice Studios
to record a new studio album. This will be released in early 2001. Threshold is
progressive metal from the United Kingdom.
The collaboration of
Doug Pinnick (from King's X) and Bruce Franklin (from Trouble) is (as you may already
know) called Supershine. The album will be
in the stores in September. Also on the way is a live home video from Doug
Pinnick's soloproject Poundhound.
Extol will be on tour through the
United States from this week on. As a surprise the guys from Lengsel will be with them as
well and they may be performing at certain stops.
Friday
June 9th 2000
P.O.D.'s new video Rock The Party
has been added into rotation onto
MTV USA. Rock The Party follows Southtown. According to the band this is the party song of
the Summer. If any of you caught the Korn / P.O.D. show
at Wembley Arena in London you may have seen some familiar faces. Simon and
Christian from Blindside
got to perform with their good friends P.O.D. and said it was amazing.
Zao will not tour
through Europe. This means they will not appear on the DP Fest, the Freakstock Festival
and the Peacedog Festival.
Antithesis is writing for a new
CD. Five tunes have been completed and the other half of the CD is under
construction. Antithesis will be headed into the
studio the first week of September to begin tracking. Cover art will be done by an
artist from Switzerland.
The new Immortal Souls album is delayed.
The album Under The Northern
Sky will most likely be released by the time snow arrives. According to record-company Little Rose Productions this is only
natural as Immortal Souls are a Winter Metal band. "Could you imagine releasing a
winter metal-album in the midst of summer? We can't, so we decided to release the album
later this year." It seems there are some other reasons for delaying the
releasedate of the album. Little Rose Productions says there are some wild plans
too. According to the band they will have a single release out sooner, with the song The
Cleansing and couple of other new songs. Release date of the album will be set soon. The
Finnish band were supposed to play the Nocturnal Metal Fest in Finland on June 17th but
their show is cancelled due to other obligations of their guitarist.
Black metal band Mordecai is still working on the
material for their forthcoming full album. Due to some problems the release date has been
forced to be delayed into the future, but Little Rose Productions assures that the album will be released. The
band is also looking for a new drummer (so, if you live in Finland...). The new stuff is
very fast black metal which sets the standards for the drummer. The album however, will be
recorded with a session drummer, Johny Pesonen, who also appeared on Deuteronomium's
debut EP, Tribal Eagle.
Talking about Deuteronomium....They will play some
gigs during the summer throughout Europe (Holland, Germany, Norway) Former
vocalist/guitarist Miika Partala agreed to do these shows as the band's still looking for
a new vocalist and guitarist.
More touring news.
The Finnish rapcore act Jacks
Of All Trades will tour in the USA in July-August. They will play at Sonshine Festival
and tour with the American band Pillar for almost four weeks.
Also Dust Eater Dogs will go abroad. They
are supposed to play in Belgium at Maan Rock Podium (in August), and possibly also in
Holland before that.
Hallowed, who
appeared on the Finnish Metal Compilation CD From
Kaamos To Midnight Sun has been spending some time in the studio recording some songs to
be released on their debut EP later this year. The EP will be
released on Little Rose Productions
and what you will hear is power metal in the veins of Gamma Ray. The band's new vocalist
is Michael Majalahti. According to Little Rose the band has taken a huge step forward
since Kaamos.
Jeff Scheetz is currently in the
studio working on a Christmas CD that will be
out in time for Christmas. It will contain lots of rippin' versions of your favorite
Christmas tunes, done in Jeff's own unique way.
The Zoobabies will be touring throughout
Europe starting on July 14th playing several festival's including the DP Fest in Norway as
well as headlining 12 dates. The US tour will start in August. Their new CD will be
released also in August.
The official release
date for Rob Rock's Rage Of Creation
in Japan on JVC/Victor Entertainment is July 26, 2000. There will be an official
announcement from JVC-Victor Entertainment about the Impellitteri situation (About
Rob leaving the band). Rob Rock will make his own announcement at the same time. Visit the
Rock-Impellitteri Advocacy
site for details.
Here's some info
from the Mortification camp.
As you know vocalist/bassist Steve Rowe went through a struggle with cancer. Though he
came through the disease he still suffers from the body damages. Currently he is
continuing to improve, although he is still struggling with walking because of motor
paralysis, and he still has kidney, heart and spinal problems. Many of you may have heard
last year that doctors were giving Steve only another two years to live. They have now
told him that he should expect to live another twenty years.
Mortificaton is
planning on doing a full world tour in June and July of 2001with a possible spill over
into August. They will be travelling to South Africa, Europe, the USA and South
America. Recently the band released The Mortification 10 Years Live CD to celebrate the
tenth anniversary. Unfortunately, the video did not turn out, so the album is only
released as a CD
Rowe Productions reports the
signing of another US band. They're called Biogenesis. Their debut CD, The Mark Bleeds
Through will be released sometime this fall.
Sweden's Endtime Productions published
the final track-list of their In The Shadow Of Death compilation album. On this
Scandinavian extreme music sampler will be these tracks: Parca Pace with Chrysalis;
Vaakevandring with Fall Of Man, Lengsel with Revival; Schaliach with Purple Filter;
Sanctum with Stone; Crimson Moonlight with Blood Covered My Needs; Antestor with Spiritual
Disease; Extol with Inferno (European version); Mental Destruction with Your Dying Soul;
Anaemia with The Second Incarnation; Sanctifica with Riket; Vardöger with Footprints Of
Thunder, Absurd with Wisdom; Drottnar with Trellebaand Maa Briste; Nebulon with Enough.
Nine of these fifteen tracks were specially recorded for this album. The Swedish street
date will be in August.
For the fans of Deliverance there's
some good news. Though the band is still a side project on Jimmy Brown's mind (he's
vocalist and guitarist) there are a couple of good news for the fans: First, Jimmy
has negotiated with Magdaline Records to re-release the River Disturbance CD with extra
tracks that were left off the original release. He now has the rights to release a lot of
demos, extras, B-sides as well as some home video footage of in studio footage and tour
footage.So, you never know what's gonna happen. Second, according to the Sanctuary Homepage a Sanctuary
Reunion Concert is scheduled for August. The tentative band list is Barren Cross,
Electrik, Jordan, Krush, Neon Cross, Overdrive,
Recon, Triple Ace, Vengeance and, of course, Deliverance. Jimmy has hinted that this might
be recorded and you'll be able to finally have a non-bootleg Deliverance concert album!!!
The expected lineup for the concert is Jimmy Brown (vocals, guitars) George Ochoa on
guitar, Mike Grato on Bass (bassist on the What A Joke and Stay Of Execution albums ), and
Jim Chaffin on drums (who was drummer for The Crucified and played several times with
Deliverance).
Living Sacrifice are still
working on their new record The Hammering Process. The band.
News from Training
For Utopia. The Clark brothers are moving to Seattle, USA. The band will be
working on new music there and will
probably be recording at the end of the year.
Upcoming Tooth & Nail Records releases:
June 20th: Shorthanded, Forever Yours; July 18th: Ghoti Hook, Two Years To Never; August
1st: Tooth & Nail Videography 1993-1999 DVD; August 15th: Squad Five-O, Bombs Over
Broadway; August 15th: Fanmail, Fanmail 2000; August 29th: The Juliana Theory, Emotion Is
Dead. In addition to those titles they have new albums coming this fall/winter from
Dogwood, Craig's Brother, Blenderhead, Calibretto 13 and more.
Friday
June 2nd 2000
On August 15th 2000 Fear Dark will release an album of
Slechtvalk. This is a black metal project from Shamgar who previously worked under the
names Dommer and Rebirth. According to the record-company Slechtvalk can be described as a
mix of the doomy keyboards of Within Temptation with aggressive fast black metal. Title of
the CD is Falconry. Soon Shamgar will open the official website of Slechtvalk and he is looking for
people to form a band.
Born and bred in
Austin, Texas, USA, HM Magazine
celebrates its 15th birthday this month. Congratulations! HM Magazine is nowadays as you
may know a Christian hard music magazine paying attention to alternative, emo, goth,
hardcore, industrial, metal, punk, rock and ska.
Slick Shoes - Wake Up Screaming is
#48 on Billboard Heatseeker Charts in the US!
Saint has re-issued
their Too Late For Living album originally released in 1988. The original went out of
print a couple of years ago. This is an exact reissue and sounds better since it was
mastered.
Bride is at this time in the studio
with producer Plinky Giglio. As you may know he was the producer of their Snakes In The
Playground album, released in 1992. Bride is going in without any patented formula. The
band has been reinvented over the past year with two new bandmembers and a whole new
outlook on the future. The ever-preverbal Dale Thompson is unleashing his most explicit
lyrics to date. This is aggressive Bride with songs titled Soul Winner, Never Thought
About Going Back and many others. This project will be released late summer with a fall
tour expected.
Fanmail, who just finished their new
album Fanmail 2000, has a new track online at Farmclub.com. Go to farmclub.com in the
listening room in the alternative section and vote for Fanmail Shut Your Mouth so they can
have a shot at getting on the Farm Club TV show which is hosted by ex-MTV VJ Matt
Pinfield.
Element 101 just completed
mixing of their new album tentatively titled
Stereo Girl. According to the record-company (Tooth & Nail) it is just massive
sounding. Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton as well as Jason Livermore did all the dirty
work at the All compound in Fort Collins (also known as The Blasting Room). The new record
will be out later in the fall. In the meantime see the band on tour this summer with BEC
punkers Hangnail.
Blenderhead finally recorded a
brand new song called Twinkie
Insanity Verdict for the upcoming Songs From The Penalty Box Volume 4! This is the first
time the band has recorded since Muchacho Vivo was
released in 1995. The boys are hard at work finishing up songs for their new
album Figureheads On The Forefront Of Pop Culture. They have 11 songs
done and are booked to record in September with producer J. Robbins in Seattle. The album
is set for release in November 2000 |
