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News June-July 2000
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 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
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. 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 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 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 The new Immortal Souls album is delayed. The album Under
The Northern 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 Jeff
Scheetz is currently in the studio working on a Christmas CD that will be 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 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 Blenderhead
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