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September 16th, 2004	PISSING RAZORS' Eddy Garcia and Rick Valles are officially playing with Ministry - Eddy Garcia is playing bass and Rick is playing guitar - Pissing Razors will be releasing a new album next year. Metal Update Due to a broken collar bone injury sustained by HELMET's band leader Page Hamilton while mountain biking, the band has been forced to revise their tour dates and will now launch their first tour in seven years in early October - this news also affects the release date of "Size Matters" which has been moved to October 5 from its original September 14 release. Metal Update CALLENISH CIRCLE drummer Gavin Harte has returned to the fold. Metal Update PLACE OF SKULLS drummer Tim Tomaselli has left the group to pursue personal interests. Metal Update Bassist Magnus Linhardt has been added to the lineup of FALCONER. Metal Update LUCUBRO has decided to part ways - new projects are expected to rise from the ashes. Metal Update RETCH has replaced the drum machine with drummer Brian Wishin (Entorturement) and are hitting the studio this January to record a new MCD. Metal Update Jason Suecof (Capharnaum, Crotchduster) will be producing TRIVIUM's debut album for Roadrunner Records. Metal Update BW&BK presents CRYPTOPSY Canadian Tour 2004 September 7: Barrie, ON Foundation September 8: Sudbury, ON TBA (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) September 10: Thunder Bay, ON Apollo (w/ Bloodshoteye) September 11: Winnipeg, MB The Zoo (w/ Bloodshoteye) September 12: Brandon, MB TBA (w/ Bloodshoteye) September 13: Saskatoon, SK Roxy (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) September 14: Regina, SK The Exchange (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) September 16: Calgary, AB Underground Night Club (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) September 17: Edmonton, AB Starlite Room (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) September 18: Lethbrige, AB Vibes Nightclub (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) September 20: Prince George, BC Rollerdome (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) September 21: Vancouver, BC Brickyard (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) September 22: Victoria, BC Upstairs Cabaret (w/ Bloodshoteye, Meatlocker Seven) October 8: Quebec, QC Campus de Charlesbourg (w/ Bloodshoteye, The End, Cephalic Carnage) October 9: Montreal, QC Medley (w/ Bloodshoteye, The End, Cephalic Carnage) October 15: Saguenay, QC TBA October 16: Dolbeau, QC Vox Populi October 23: Rouyn-Noranda, QC Petit Theatre October 28: Ottawa, ON Barrymore's Music Hall October 29: Oshawa, ON Dungeon October 30: Hamilton, ON Underground October 31: Peterborough, ON Vibe Night Club November 5 : Rimouski, QC Coudee November 6: Trois-Rivieres, QC Le Maquisart , Trois-Rivieres Metalfest Additional info & Update: http://www.cryptopsy.net , http://www.galyrecords.com , http://www.bloodshoteye.com , http://www.meatlockerseven.com , http://www.bravewords.com CRASH MUSIC SIGNS DISGORGE Disgorge released their first demo In 1992 entitled Cognitive Lust of Mutilation and made a name for themselves in the underground scene. After rave reviews and the release of their demo entitled Cranial Impalement the band signed to Unique Leader Records. They went on to release their first full-length album in 1999, entitled She Lay Gutted and their second full length album in 2001, entitled Consume The Forsaken. Disgorge has toured relentlessly over the years with stops all over the USA as well as Europe and South America. The band is currently working on their Crash Music debut entitled Parallels of Infinite Torture which will be released in early 2005. Crash Music is distributed in the U.S. by Caroline Distribution and has offices in France that handle the European territories through Crash Music Europe. http://www.crashmusicinc.com/ Metal Maniacs DIECAST RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED The Boston-based metalcore quintet DIECAST have set an October 19th release date for their highly anticipated new album, Tearing Down Your Blue Skies. This is the group's first effort since their highly acclaimed debut full-length, Day of Reckoning, released over three years ago. This new offering shows the group's progression as musicians and songwriters, while the addition of new vocalist Paul Stoddard adds a whole new feel to the band's dynamic sound. DIECAST have broken the mold once again creating an album that will set the mark for all other bands in the genre to try and surpass. Jeremy Wooden (bass) further describes the band's excitement, "First of all, I'd like to apologize to all the fans for the delayed album release. When Day of Reckoning was released in 2001 our response at college radio was overwhelming, as the album held the #1 spot on the CMJ Loud Rock charts for four weeks. With this in mind we did not want to release Tearing Down Your Blue Skies in the summer and miss out on capitalizing on that great opportunity once again. We have already had 30,000 downloads of the new sampler from our site and that's just a small sample of what's to come. We have been anxiously waiting to hit the road again and it looks like this time it will be worldwide, rather than just national. The plans are to film a video for the first single off the album shortly and look for us on the road in the coming months. We are ready to destroy." www.bhcdiecast.com Metal Maniacs KATAKLYSM DISPUTE Kataklysm is in dispute at the moment with ex-Hypnotic honcho Tom Treumuth and LINUS ENT./WARNER MUSIC CANADA regarding the re-release of the 1998 album VICTIMS OF THIS FALLEN WORLD, previously released on Canada's Hypnotic label. The problem is that the album was out of print because of the defunct Hypnotic label and Kataklysm has fullfilled its contractual commitment. As a result, Kataklysm have been working the past month at completely re-recording Victims of this Fallen World and have made a new agreement with long time friend of the band Stephan Mellul and Skyscraper Music/Fusion 3 for a Canadian re-release and through Crash music for the United States. To everyone's surprise, we have been notified that former Hypnotic owner Tom Treumuth has licensed both the Victims of this Fallen World and Northern Hyperblast Live albums to Linus Entertainment/Warner Music Canada for a September release, without rights nor the band's consent!! This is a total rip off situation and we cannot believe WARNER MUSIC is letting this happen without even LINUS ENT. having documentation allowing them to release these albums. DO NOT BUY these albums, they do not have our permission and they are stealing your money and ours!! Comments Maurizio on the Victims... re-release: "J-F has been working for the last 3 weeks with Stephane and former drummer Max Duhamel on the re-recording of Victims of this Fallen World. The album has been completely revamped from A to Z , basically given a facelift with new guitar and bass sounds, and drums completely re-recorded by original drummer Max Duhamel... Only things left are vocals, scheduled for next week, new mix/mastering and new artwork will be finalised as well... We decided to do this because we feel that this album was a turning point for Kataklysm and the band has evolved so much since. We tought it would be fun to see how it would turn out by re-recording it with today's vision as musicians and with J-F's top notch producing skills behind it - and maybe give it some justice for what it was... And let me tell you that the results are astonishing! You'll be surprised how big it sounds already and I can't wait to lay some sick vocals on it next week. So please BOYCOTT that LINUS ENTERTAINMENT and WARNER MUSIC re-release, this is just about someone desperately trying to make a few extra bucks at our expense. Distro and labels - do not order it, just wait for October for this new edition re-release. It will be worth it and I'm glad I listened to J-F about doing this."- Maurizio www.kataklysm.net Metal Maniacs AUTUMN TEARS - Eclipse Dark Symphonies is extremely excited to finally announce Tuesday, October 26, 2004 as the official world wide release date for AUTUMN TEARS' brand new masterpiece Eclipse! After four long years of silence, AUTUMN TEARS return with their most epic, conceptual, and fullest neoclassical piece of music they have ever offered. Lush strings, acoustic guitars and woodwinds accompany soaring orchestral soundscapes, painting the backdrop for a staggering array of vocal performances that range from operatic and classical solos to Baltic choral passages and duets. Eclipse features Erika's angelic voice in her final performance with the band, as well as the talents of Terran Olson (ex-Maudlin of the Well, Kayo Dot) performing live clarinet and flutes, Greg Ball (ex- Long Winters Stare, Sound of Enoch) performing upright contrabass and classical guitar, and Laurie Ann Haus (Ex-Rain Fell Within, Ephemeral Sun) performing lead and backing vocals. Ted also steps behind the mic once again employing chant and acappella vocal styles, both solo and duet, to further diversify as well as return to the roots of the ever-evolving AUTUMN TEARS' sound. Beautiful, surreal Illustrations accompany one of the most anticipated musical offerings of the year from one of the most respected musical outfits in the underground music scene. Distributed in the US by IDN, the first 2000 copies of Eclipse will come housed in a gorgeous, deluxe eight-panel digipak. Prepare for the magical enchantment that is AUTUMN TEARS' Eclipse! www.darksymphonies.com www.darksymphonies.com/autumntears/ Metal Maniacs Modern Rock giants, ADEMA, are preparing to hunker down at Fat Tracks Studios in their hometown of Bakersfield, CA to record their self-produced Earache debut, due for release in January 2005. NorCal rockers, SHORTIE, are currently mixing their Earache debut with producer Michael Rosen (AFI, The Donnas, Testament). Recorded at J Street Studios (owned by Brian Wheat of Tesla) in Shortie's hometown of Sacramento, CA, Shortie's Earache debut is a powerhouse of aggressive rock and infectious hooks, due for release in February 2005. Florida Death Metal titans, HATE ETERNAL, have entered frontman Erik Rutan's own Mana Recording Studio to record their third album. Expect nothing short of utterly phenomenal musicianship in the form of inhuman speed and unholy heaviness... in other words, the next landmark album in Death Metal, due for release in February 2005. LA shock-rockers, SOCIETY 1, are currently entrenched in NRG Studios with producer Wade Norton (Static-X, Dope), recording their second Earache album -- "The Sound That Ends Creation". While "The Sound That Ends Creation" will retain the key Society 1 elements - confrontational lyrics, industrial-metal shock-rock stylings, hellbent Satanic overtones -- Matt "The Lord" Zane advises fans to "expect the unexpected". Release is planned for February 2005. DEICIDE ON TOUR: Sept 16 - Culture Room - Ft Lauderdale, FL 17 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA 18 - Jesters Pub - Fayetteville, NC 19 - Thunderdome - Baltimore, MD 20 - BB King Blues Club - New York, NY 21 - The Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA 22 - Webster Theatre - Hartford, CT 23 - Mr Smalls - Pittsburgh, PA 24 - Bogarts - Cincinnati, OH 25 - The Arena - East Dubuque, IL 26 - Ascot Room - Minneapolis, MN 27 - House of Blues - Chicago, IL 28 - Ranch Bowl - Omaha, NE 29 - Bluebird Theatre - Denver, CO Oct 01 - Graceland - Seattle, WA 02 - Roseland Theatre - Portland, OR 03 - The Pound - San Francisco, CA 04 - 4th and B - San Diego, CA 05 - House of Blues - Los Angeles, CA 06 - Galaxy Theatre - Santa Ana, CA 07 - House of Blues - Las Vegas, NV 08 - Sunshine Theatre - Albuquerque, NM 09 - Bricktown Live - Oklahoma City, OK 10 - Sanctuary - San Antonio, TX 11 - El Palacio Ballroom - Corpus Christi, TX 12 - Mary Jane's - Houston, TX 13 - Boomerz Boiler Room - Seminole, FL METALLIAN FESTIVAL TOUR N°2 THERION (Suède) TRISTANIA (Norvège) TRAIL OF TEARS (Norvège) + MERCURY RAIN (Angleterre) ...30.10 ANVERS (B) Hof Ter Loo 11.11 PRATTELN (CH) Z7 12.11 STRABSOURG (F) La Laiterie 13.11 LIMOGES (F) CC John Lennon 14.11 RENNES (F) Antipode 15.11 PARIS (F) La Loco 17.11 LILLE (F) Le Splenbdid 18.11 LYON (F) Ninkasi Kao 21.11 TOULOUSE (F) Havana-Café... Infos : www.metallian.net www.metal-live.com DEVILYN came back affter the succesful performance in Finland and Latvia. Everything went as it had been expected, but the attendance was even more suprising. The tour was attended by over 1500 fans, it 's quite a lot for count of concerts. "We're glad we were shown so much enthusiasm by the audience. We keep thinking of returning to those countries sometime in future" - said Bony. At present, Devilyn are preparing for the new recording session, which will actually take place in the middle of October at Hertz Studio in Bia_ystok. The session is delayed because of the new drummer of Devilyn who practised a lot durning the tour. "MECHANICAL POET" FINISH RECORDING THE NEW ALBUM Russian Progressive Gothic Metallers MECHANICAL POET finished the recording of their brand new album titled "WOODLAND PRATTLERS", scheduled for a late October 2004 release on Aural Music. The album is filled with progressive metal riffs, deep ambient pads , trance electronics and rich classical orchestrations, imagine a never heard before mix of Tim Burton, Progressive Metal, Japanese Cartoons and East-European Gothic Atmospheres... the tracklist is set as follow: 1. Main Titles 2. Stormchild 3. Bogie In A Coal-Hole 4. Sirens From The Underland 5. Will O' The Wisp 6. Strayed Moppet 7. Old Year's Merry Funeral 8. Natural Quaternion a. Sylphs b. Gnomes c. Undines d. Salamanders 9. Shades On A Casement 10. Swamp-Stamp-Polka 11. End Credits more news on www.mechanicalpoet.net . "THEE MALDOROR KOLLECTIVE" NEW ALBUM READY TO BE RELEASED Italian ritualists THEE MALDOROR KOLLECTIVE are back with a new album titled "A Clockwork Highway", scheduled to be released in October 2004 on code666. After the groundbreaking "New Era Viral Order" in 2001, they changed again to create another musical jewel, a dangerous noise soundtrack filled with scaring visions of future, unspeakable questions and disturbing grooves, featuring the collaboration with industrial-music guru BAD SECTOR. Do not expect a "New Era Viral Order part 2.", as usual The Kollective morphed in a new Entity with a new line-up and a new music style, this time more close to the Apocalyptic post-core scene (Isis, Neurosis) the new songs are a slow, hypnotic, tribal trip in a noise soundtrack, like William Gibson in Mescal Overdose. news on www.maldororkollective.net "THE SOUNDBYTE" OUT SOON ON AMARANTH RECORDINGS The first release of the aural music imprints Amaranth Recordings (ruled by Ephel Duath's Davide Tiso) is "Rivers of Broken Glass" the title portrays what this album sounds like: massive, cold and penetrating; cutting shards of resigned angst with twinges of hope that feels like morphine, and continuously shimmering with fragments of sheer beauty. Always experimenting with different concrete sounds and introducing sheer, almost transparent vocals upon far murkier, monotone foundations, The Soundbyte has developed it's own voice. The result is an exciting and dark voyage through soundscapes consisting of drums, bass, innovative guitars, male and female vocals, mellow strings, brass, keyboards and programming. The Soundbyte is a solo project of Trond Engum evolved through several years of composing and playing as a part of the cult band The 3rd and The Mortal. more info on: www.thesoundbyte.com TWISTED SISTER TO RELEASE 'STILL HUNGRY' CD -- A RERECORDED AND EXPANDED VERSION OF THE CLASSIC 'STAY HUNGRY' ALBUM -- ON OCTOBER 5, 2004, ON EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT 2004 is shaping up as one of the most exciting years ever for the hard rock band Twisted Sister. Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the 'Still Hungry' CD -- a rerecorded and expanded version of the classic 1984 album 'Stay Hungry' -- on October 5, 2004. 'Still Hungry' adds seven new tracks to the original 'Stay Hungry.' The rerecorded 'Stay Hungry' tracks are "Stay Hungry," "We're Not Gonna Take It," "Burn in Hell," "Horror-Teria: A) Captain Howdy B) Street Justice," "I Wanna Rock," "The Price," "Don't Let Me Down," "The Beast" and "S.M.F." The biggest singles of Twisted Sister's career, "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock," were fist-pumping smashes and important, ground-breaking music videos in the early days of MTV. The seven bonus tracks are "Never Say Never," "Blastin' Fast & Loud," "Come Back," "Plastic Money," "You Know I Cry," "Rock N Roll Saviors" and "Heroes Are Hard to Find." These songs appear at the end of 'Still Hungry.' Four of them -- "Come Back," "Plastic Money," "You Know I Cry" and "Rock N Roll Saviors" -- were newly recorded in 2004. The recording of "Never Say Never" and "Blastin' Fast & Loud" was completed in 2001 using the original drum tracks Pero laid down in 1984. "Heroes Are Hard to Find" was recorded in 1998. With 'Still Hungry,' vocalist Dee Snider, lead guitarist Jay Jay French, lead guitarist Eddie Ojeda, bass guitarist Mark "The Animal" Mendoza and drummer A.J. Pero are adding an important new chapter to the Twisted Sister history book. The quintet's relentlessly rocking anthems and legendary live performances are essential components of hard rock's legacy. 'Still Hungry' -- which was produced by Mendoza, a longtime producer/engineer in addition to his bass guitar duties with Twisted Sister -- finally gives the New York-based band a chance to make 'Stay Hungry' the way it was first envisioned. 'Stay Hungry' has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, but it doesn't sound the way Twisted Sister wanted it to sound. " 'Still Hungry' is 'Stay Hungry - The Way It Ought to Be.' It has an ultra-heavy sound, which is the way we wanted 'Stay Hungry' in the first place. But at that time rock records had a thin, very midrange kind of sound and so 'Stay Hungry' was recorded very lightly. We battled Atlantic Records and producer Tom Werman about it, but we lost," French says. "These rerecordings are faithful to the original arrangements but they sound much heavier. There are an additional seven tracks included -- obscure songs from our club days but never officially recorded then. On two of these songs, 'Never Say Never' and 'Blastin' Fast & Loud,' we used the original drum tracks that A.J. recorded. These songs were meant to be included on 'Stay Hungry' but were never finished. 'Heroes Are Hard to Find' was on the soundtrack of Dee's movie 'Strangeland.' " Six of the seven bonus tracks previously appeared, mostly in raw form, on archival Twisted Sister albums. Demos of "Come Back" and "Rock N Roll Saviors" were included on the 1999 Spitfire Records collection 'Club Daze Volume I: The Studio Sessions.' The completed 2001 studio recordings of "Never Say Never" and "Blastin' Fast & Loud" (with Pero's original 1984 drum tracks) kick off 2001's Spitfire release 'Club Daze Volume II: Live in the Bars' which also features vintage live versions of "You Know I Cry," "Plastic Money" and "Come Back" (one of just a few songs to appear on both 'Club Daze' volumes). "Even the cover art is now the way we wanted it. It shows us as five starving musicians in street clothes in a tenement sitting at a table to represent where we came from, and the ghostly looking image of us in our stage clothes behind that shot represents what we imagined we could achieve," says French. 'Still Hungry' finally gives Twisted Sister and its legions of fans worldwide the chance to experience uncompromised versions of these important songs. 'Still Hungry' makes a great thing even better. For all the latest Twisted Sister information, including select tour dates, visit www.twistedsister.com. www.twistedsister.com www.eaglerockent.com CANDLELIGHT UNVEILS FALL RELEASE SCHEDULE GOD AMONG INSECTS, RED HARVEST, KEY REISSUES Philadelphia: Candlelight Records announces its fall release schedule, with noteable new albums from rising new acts plus continued work as part of the label's year-long reissue series. Amongst the planned titles, Candlelight will issue the new album from Norway's Red Harvest, the debut from Sweden's God Among Insects, plus reissues from Voivod, and Severe Torture, among others. The anticipated debut from Sweden's God Among Insects is set for September 21 release and follows already much acclaim and controversy as part of its European album release. World Wide Death found initial objection from distributors and retailers in Germany who found the album's artwork too graphic. Comprised of Dark Funeral’s Emperor Magnus Caligula (vocals), The Project Hate’s Lord K Philipson (guitar), Vomitory’s Tobben Gustafsson (drummer), and newcomer Tomas Elofsson (guitar), the album was recorded at Abyss Studios with Tommy Tagtgren. Sweden’s Close-Up Magazine has already called the band “one of five of the most interesting bands.” Add early coverage via Metal Maniacs, Blabbermouth and Brave Words and the high curiosity surrounding the band and album release make it an album to mark and watch. October 5 will see the release of Internal Punishment Programs, the sixth album from Norwegian Grammy and Alarm Award nominated Red Harvest. Recorded at Subsonic Society Studios in Oslo and mixed by Fredrik Nordstrom, it is expected to be a growing and action-intensive year for this talented and highly revered band. A video for album track “Anatomy of the Unknown” has already been filmed and is expected to hit national and regional outlets in mid-October. Digital Metal says, “when it's all said and done it's the sheer vitality and inventiveness Red Harvest exhibit that deserves more than a celebratory gesture. In fact, Red Harvest have no equal.” Also scheduled for release October 5 is the new album from England's Hecate Enthroned (Redimus) and the debut from Sweden's Damnation (Destructo Evangelia; featuring members of Entombed and Merciless). The second album from Wynjara is set for release October 19. Featuring former members of Malevolent Creation, Monstrosity, Divine Empire and PainGod, Human Plague silences a 4-year hiatus for the band. Under license from Nocturnal Art Productions, the record showcases the band’s extreme style yet one that is flourished with highly technical abilities. Fans of Nile take notice. In early 2005, Candlelight will make available for the first time in the US the band's self titled debut. Candlelight's reissue series continues with Sweden’s Liers in Wait. Set for October 5, the band boasts a who’s who of members in wake of their long and trialled history. Formed in 1990 after the demise of Grotesque, guitarist Kristian Wahlin (The Great Deceiver, Diabolique) and drummer Hans Nilsson (Dimension Zero, The Great Deceiver) united with friends to form the early band incarnation. The band released only this single recording, Spiritually Uncontrolled Art, before officially disbanding. The record features Christofer Johnsson (Therion) on vocals and has been remastered for the reissue series. There is absolutely no denying the impressive impact Canada’s Voivod have had on the face of aggressive and extreme music. Their legacy finds a creativity unlike any other of their peers and followers, culminating near 20 years of sheer inventiveness and recording genius. Kronik, Negatron and Phobos represent the middle recording years of the band. Each have been unavailable in the US some time. Candlelight Records reintroduces them to US fans on November 2, prior to the band's expected 2005 new album. Holland's Severe Torture have amassed a sizeable worldwide following since their formation in 1997. On November 16, Candlelight will conclude the label's 2004 release schedule with the reissue of the band's two album's, complete with updated and bonus material. Feasting on Blood and Misanthropic Carnage find US re-release as the band continues work on their third full-length album. Additional titles in Candlelight's fall reissue series includes Soulreaper/Lifegrazer, Primordial/Dark Romanticism, Kataklysm/Victims ofthe Fallen World-Northern Hyperblast Live and all four of Emperor's initial recordings complete with digital/cd-rom enhancements. Watch for the label's early 2005 release schedule, to be announced shortly. The new INOCCULTA demo "Apocryphe" is now finished and available !!! To obtain it, please contact the band! www.inocculta.be.tf JOE SATRIANI SETS INTIMATE "EVENING WITH" FALL TOUR (Venice, CA) - Touring in support of his latest Epic Records release, Is There Love In Space? guitar legend, JOE SATRIANI will begin a headlining tour on October 6th in Atlanta, GA and continue through January 1st in Anaheim, CA. The 'Evening With' format will showcase SATRIANI's music in an intimate 2-1⁄2 hour set featuring song selections spanning his entire recording career. Satriani's 11th solo album, Is There Love In Space, was released on April 13, 2004 and features the performer's core trio of Matt Bissonette on bass and Jeff Campitelli behind the drums. The 11 diverse cuts on the album range from the pulsating, brash opener "GNAAHH," to the drop-tuned menace of "Hands in the Air" to the poignant ballad "Just Look Up." Yet all of the tracks are unified by Satriani's love of old-school hard rock. Receiving rave reviews from the press for this new album, Satriani was also the subject of an in-depth look at his long career by his hometown paper, The San Francisco Chronicle. "...Is There Love In Space?, catches Satriani in rip-snorting improvisational rides, laying searing, stinging leads over thick, grinding rhythm parts." --Joel Selvin, SF Chronicle, April 13, 2004 "You'll be singing along to Satch's old-school hard rock even when there are no words." --Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly, April 8, 2004 With a staggering 13 Grammy nominations, 11 solo albums to his credit and over 10 million copies of his albums sold worldwide, Joe Satriani has achieved huge success in his nearly 20 year career. In addition, this past year has seen a number of releases from the always-prolific guitarist. Is There Love In Space? debuted at #80 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with over 12,000 in sales the first week. The live album and DVD from last years successful G3 TOUR was released on February 24th with the DVD hitting #5 on the Billboard sales chart and has since been certified Gold. In addition, Sony/Legacy released the 2 CD "greatest hits" album called "The Electric Joe Satriani - An Anthology" late last year. EVENING WITH JOE SATRIANI ITINERARY: October Wed 10/6, Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA Thu 10/7, Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Fort Meyers, FL Fri 10/8, House Of Blues, Orlando, FL Sat 10/9, Pompono Beach Amphitheater, West Palm Beach, FL Mon 10/11, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL Tue 10/12, Florida Theatre, Jacksonville, FL Thu 10/14, Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA Fri 10/15, Hippodrome, Baltimore, MD Sat 10/16, Beacon Theatre, New York, NY Tue 10/19, Rock Club, Pittsburgh, PA Wed 10/20, Michigan Theater, Detroit, MI Thu 10/21, House Of Blues, Chicago, IL Sun 10/24, The Pageant, St. Louis, MO Tue 10/26, Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI Wed 10/27, Palace Theatre, Columbus, OH Fri 10/29, House of Blues, New Orleans, LA Sat 10/30, Hogg Memorial Auditorium, Austin, TX December Sun 12/26, The Warfield, San Francisco, CA Mon 12/27, The Warfield, San Francisco, CA Tue 12/28, 4th & B, San Diego, CA Wed 12/29, House Of Blues, Las Vegas, NV Thu 12/30, Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix, AZ Fri 12/31, Ventura Theatre, Ventura, CA Sat 1/1, The Grove of Anaheim, Anaheim, CA

September 9th, 2004	STEEL ATTACK release their fourth album in October. The first edition of the album will be released in digi-pack + 1 bonus track. Tracklisting: 1- Gates Of Heaven 2- Out Of The Flames 3- Forsaken 4- Bless My Sins 5- Immortal Hate 6- Son Of A Thousand Souls 7- Enslaved 8- Voices 9- When You Dream 10- Afraid No Nore (Bonus track). European Tourdates Steel Attack (Sweden) Exciter (Canada) Black Abyss (Germany) 08.10.2004 D-Osnabrück, Tor 3 09.10.2004 NL-Tilburg, 013 10.10.2004 NL-Zaandam, Kade 11.10.2004 D-Essen, Zeche Carl 12.10.2004 D-Berlin, K17 13.10.2004 D-Trier, ExHaus 14.10.2004 D-Heidelberg, Schwimmbad Musikclub 15.10.2004 Italy, t.b.a. 16.10.2004 CH-Winterthur/Zürich, Alte Kaserne 17.10.2004 B-Vosselaar, Biebob ARWEN are just finishing the recording of their second album "Illusions", the album will be released in november, some tracktitles are: Illusions, One Reason To Live, Keltia, Touch The Sky , Infinity & Lullaby RED WINE are recording their fourth album entitled "Cenizas", the new album is planned to be released in November. DARK MOOR will record their fifth album in August/September, the band will work the main part of the production once again at New Sin Studios. Dark Moor will play some gigs in november, two of them with the swedish band Skyfire. Dark Moor 5.11.2004 Valencia Sala República Dark Moor 6.11.2004 Murcia Sala Gamma Dark Moor 12.11.2004 Barcelona Sala Mephisto Dark Moor + Skyfire 26.11.2004 Madrid Sala Arena Dark Moor + Skyfire 27 .11.2004 Bilbao Sala Azkena UK ROCK LEGENDS MARILLION RELEASE NEW CD, TOUR THE US New York City: Twenty-one years after the release of their first album Script For A Jester’s Tear, MARILLION prepare release of their thirteenth studio album, Marbles. Set for US release on October 5, 2004, Marbles is packed full of atmospheric and stirring songs. Intense, deep-seated and musically rewarding, the CD had a pan-European release May 3 via their own label Intact Records, with international distribution and licensing handled by Absolute worldwide. The album's single, ‘You’re Gone,’ charted at position #7 in the UK (the week’s second highest entry) and at position #8 in Holland, earning the band a slot on Top Of The Pops. The airplay on the single ‘You’re Gone’ has been phenomenal from all areas of the press throughout Europe. MARILLION have a unique relationship with their fans. In 1997 the fans learnt via an email newsletter that, due to lack of record company support, the band could not afford to fund a US tour. One of the fans instigated a whip-round and raised $60,000 enabling the tour to take place. The release of the album Marillion.com in 1999 flagged their newly launched web-site (and record label) and this online source of information became an open conduit between band and fans. At that point the band decided to adopt a completely new approach to the way their albums were funded and their twelfth album Anoraknophobia hit the headlines in 2001 when more than 12,000 fans pre-ordered and paid for, the record twelve months before it was released. A similar campaign has been launched to fund Marbles with 13,000 fans ordering the record in advance, but this time all the money raised is going into a campaign fund to promote the album. MARILLION have sold more than fourteen million records worldwide. Their thirteen studio albums (four with Fish as lead singer '82-88; 9 with Steve Hogarth) have hit worldwide charts continuously: eight UK Top 10 albums, nineteen UK Top 40 singles. They have performed over 1100 shows to well over 2 million people and are currently working on a 43-date worldwide tour that commenced May 2004 and will find the band playing to audiences in England, Ireland, Germany, France, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Mexico, and ending with dates in the US and Canada. Marbles will be released via Dead Ringer Records. Distribution throughout the United States is handled exclusively by Caroline Distribution; PHD Canada for the northern territories and various distributors throughout Mexico ARCTIC MUSIC GROUP ISSUES LIVE ALBUMS FROM MALEVOLENT CREATION AND HATEPLOW Philadelphia: Arctic Music Group today confirms September 21 as the US release date for anticipated live and special collection albums from Malevolent Creation and Hateplow. Each album follows new or recently reissued recordings and expect to find high interest from fans. It was over ten years ago that the metal world first lay witness to the now genre-shaping The Ten Commandments by then little known band Malevolent Creation. Eight albums later, Malevolent Creation have sold hundreds of thousands of records across their catalog, toured consistantly round the world and with each and every move, kept their dedication and musical quality in tact. They are a fitting champion for the extreme music fan. The hour-plus Conquering South America was recorded during the band's 2001 tour of Brazil and masterfully engineered by Jean-Francois Dagenais (Kataklysm, Misery Index). It is an album that fans have long requested - and now have been delivered. Album track listing includes Eve Of The Apocalypse, Multiple Stab Wounds, Manic Demise, Blood Brothers, Kill Zone, Rebirth Of Terror, Slaughter Of Innocence, To Die Is At Hand, Coronation Of Our Domain, Monster, All That Remains, Alliance Or War, Infernal Desire, Living In Fear, Malevolent Creation. Hateplow's Mosh Pit Murder features lives recordings captured on the band's 2000 tour with SOD/Stormtroopers of Death. The 16-song recording also includes selections from the band’s highly sought after 1996 featuring the band's original line up of Phil Fasciana, Rob Barrett, Kyle Symons, Larry Hawke and Tim Scott. The album find's release as the band commences production on their third and reported last studio album. Album track listing includes Crack down, Everybody Dies,The Only Law is Survival, Traitor, Fuck the Millenium, Prison Bitch, Without Weapons, Stalker, Born with Both, $20 Dollar Blow Job (demo 1996), Anally Annie (demo 1996), Ante Up (demo 1996), In the Pitch (demo 1996), Addiction (demo 1996), The Gift Giver (demo 1996), Payback (demo 1999). Arctic Music Group was formed by Scott Hecker with Malevolent Creation guitarist Phil Fasciana in June 2000. The label has released nearly 20 albums, including additional titles from Malevolent Creation, Hateplow and Kult ov Azazel amongst others. The label recently released the debut from New England-based Codeblack and earlier this year issued new recordings from Stereochrist and Total Devastation. The label finds US marketing and distribution through Candlelight Records and is licensed to Plastichead Records for European territories. MORBID ANGEL vocalist Steve Tucker has left the group - former frontman David Vincent will handle bass and vocals on the upcoming South American tour. Metal Update JON OLIVA, Savatage's mastermind has dubbed his new solo project from Jon Oliva's 'Tage Mahal to Jon Oliva's Pain due to possible trade-name conflicts - the title of the forthcoming album will be "Tage Mahal". Metal Update AMORPHIS vocalist Pasi Koskinen has left the band - Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto (Charon, Poisonblack) will handle vocal duties for the upcoming tour with Type O Negative. Metal Update Vocalist Jens C. Mortensen (Slapdash, Revolver) has replaced Jonas Kjellgren in CARNAL FORGE. Metal Update HAVOCHATE drummer Jon Dette (Slayer, Testament) has left the band. Metal Update Erika Swinnich, former vocalist of Autumn Tears, has joined forces with former Agony Column guitar shredder Stuart Laurence to form a true metal band, IGNITOR - also involved are: Pat Doyle (The Offenders), Brendon Bigelow (Death Of Millions) and Beverly Barrington (T.A.N.G.). Metal Update New bassplayer Anden Andersson has been added to the STEEL ATTACK lineup. Metal Update After Ozzfest, JUDAS PRIEST plans to take a break from touring for the rest of 2004 in order to finish their new studio album by an anticipated December 28 release date - major touring is planned for 2005. Metal Update BODY COUNT rhythm guitarist Dennis "D-Roc" Miles died earlier this week at the age of 45 due to complications from lymphoma. Metal Update CONFESSOR will performing live in Raleigh, NC at Martin Street Music Hall on October 16th for the, "Confessor 2004 Demo Release Show." You can find out all the information about the show at the Confessor website, www.confessorband.com. ABSU/MELECHESH’s Proscriptor Launches New Record Label Dallas, Texas, August 13, 2004 — ABSU/Melechesh drummer/vocalist Proscriptor (a.k.a Russ R. Givens) has launched a unique and revolutionary label called Tarot Productions. “My objective is to furnish the underground communities with high quality releases. The first is my solo project titled Proscriptor’s “Thoth Music(k),” limited to 500 vinyl EPs, which is out now. Rare and limited releases from Absu, Equimanthorn, Heaven’s Devils, Equitant, Goreaphobia, Magnus Thorsen, Divine Eve and Starchaser Network are in the works, including Morbid Scream, which had a vast influence on my principle band, ABSU. Plans are already afoot to release collectible LP and CD releases from these mentioned bands, as we are actively seeking old and new bands to sign up on Tarot Productions. We have our headquarters in Texas and are opening an office in Sweden by the autumn of 2004.” Tarot Productions is also the official merchant for the Canadian drum company, Ayotte Drums, in the state of Texas. For more information, please click here: www.tarotproductions.com Metal Maniacs VADER: The Beast will rise! On September 21st The Beast will rise. Right, we are talking about the new album from almighty VADER! The Beast was recorded at Radio Gdansk Studio with producer Piotr Lukaszewski ("Reign Forever World," "Revelations," "Blood") and was mixed while the band were away on the first part of their European tour. Jacek Wisniewski was responsible for the album artwork and other graphics. The mastering session took place on July 1. Here's the track listing of The Beast: 1. Intro 2. Out Of The Deep 3. Dark Transmission 4. Firebringer 5. The Sea Came In At Last 6. I Shall Prevail 7. The Zone 8. Insomnia 9. Apopheniac 10. Choices And for all you hardcore Vader fans, the European version of The Beast will be released as a limited first edition that will contain a bonus-DVD! The bonus DVD includes a report from the studio, a video clip recorded during the session, and some fragments of one of the most important gigs in 2003! Be prepared! http://vader.pl/ Metal Maniacs IMPIOUS done with recordings! Swedish Death/Thrash maniacs Impious have finished recordings for their upcoming neck breaker, Hellucinate. Produced by Valle Adzic and mixed by Chris Silver and Valle Adzic at Studio Mega, Impious managed to get a hell of a sound! Their furious Death/Thrash attacks have never sounded that powerful, tight and to the point as on this album! Here's the track listing for Hellucinate: 1. Inject 2. Wicked Saints 3. Infernique 4. Hellucinations 5. Show Me Your God! 6. Death_Wish_Scar 7. Toxic Paranoia 8. Needles Nervosa 9. Bloodspill Revelation 10. Suicide Park In store October 5th 2004! www.impious.net Metal Maniacs NEAERA to begin recording! Münster, Germany-based Metalcore act NEAERA will enter Stage One Studios in Bühne, Germany in November with producer Andy Classen to record their debut album, tentatively due in early 2005 through Metal Blade Records. A demo track, entitled "Broken Spine" can currently be downloaded from the group's web site at this location. Upcoming NEAERA shows: 10/21 - Münster @ Skaters Palace (with Heaven Shall Burn and Fear My Thoughts) 10/23 - Bielefeld @ Falkendom (with Destiny, Six Reasons To Kill and Screamin Silence) www.neaera.com Metal Maniacs CANNIBAL CORPSE TOUR To clear up any confusion about the planned Scandinavian tour in September: even though Amon Amarth have pulled out of this tour, it will NOT influence Cannibal Corpse's participation. A replacement for Amon Amarth will be announced shortly. www.cannibalcorpse.net Metal Maniacs CATARACT Update from the band: "We need to tell you that our first show in Denmark was an incredible blast. Thanks to everyone who was there and especially to Soren and his crew for putting up this awesome fest! Even if it took us almost 16 hrs to get there - we joined about 1 million Germans on their way to their holidays up north - it was worth every second of it. We played four songs of our upcoming record and it feels damn good to finally play them live! Well, one thing's for sure, we won't wait another 6 years to come back! Please check our e-card! There's one full song ("Nothing's Left" song #2 on the album) ready for download and you can pre-order our new full-length! Don't miss us playing the Sucks'n' Summer Fest this weekend in Leisnig with tons of other great bands!" www.cataract-collective.com Metal Maniacs The Massachusetts-based thrash metal quintet SHADOWS FALL will soon embark on a headlining tour with All That Remains, Candiria and Full Blown Chaos. The trek, dubbed The War Within tour, is set to begin September 16th running through October 2nd in support of the group's highly anticipated new album. This tour comes off the heels of SHADOWS FALL's extremely successful headlining stint on the Strhess Tour, and will be the last time this year the band will play these types of intimate venues. The group will also play a special one off show supporting Judas Priest at the Mohegan Sun Arena in CT on 8/29. Tickets to all shows are now onsale; go to www.shadowsfallrocks.com for additional information. For most shows, the band will be offering tickets before they go on sale to the general public. The majority will have reduced service charges compared to the usual ticket outlets. This is a first come first serve online ticket ordering system with a maximum order of four tickets. Tickets for New York City, Chicago and Cleveland are already available and going fast. We fully expect these shows to sell out so get tickets while you can. Click here (https://ticketing.concertmaps.com/shadowsfall/) to order your tickets now. Be sure to check back as the page will be updated frequently. SHADOWS FALL stunning new offering, The War Within, was produced once again by Zeuss (Hatebreed) at Planet Z Studios and features 10 tracks of sonic devastation. The group also just completed a video for the track "The Power of I and I" directed by Dale Resteghini (Fear Factory, Hatebreed) and look for it to make its debut shortly. This is the group's fourth full-length release and is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Art of Balance. The new effort, set for a September 21st release, is their most unrelenting, yet dynamic offering to date, further proving why they are the undisputed leaders of their genre. SHADOWS FALL w/All That Remains, Candiria, Full Blown Chaos 9/16 The Bombshelter- Manchester, NH 9/17 Empress Ballroom- Danbury, CT 9/18 The World-Pittsburgh, PA 9/19 Jaxx- West Springfield, VA 9/22 Irving Plaza- New York, NY 9/24 The Chance-Poughkeepsie, NY 9/25 Theatre of Living Arts- Philadelphia, PA 9/26 Locobazooka- Fitchburg, MA w/Shinedown, Saliva, Kittie, Crossfade, Dropbox 9/28 Peabody's- Cleveland, OH 9/29 The Bottom Lounge- Chicago, IL 9/30 St. Andrews Hall- Detroit, MI 10/1 The Club@ Water Street Music Hall- Rochester, NY 10/2 Saratoga Winners- Lathem, NY Metal Maniacs THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN ANNOUNCE U.S. TOUR Relapse Records recording artists THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN have announced their second headlining tour of 2004 in support of their new album, Miss Machine. Hot off the conclusion of their highly successful "F$#king With The Lights On" tour, DILLINGER will kick off a five week U.S. tour on September 29th in New Haven, CT. The tour is expected to conclude on November 4th in New York, NY with additional dates pending. Support on the Hot Topic-sponsored DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN tour will be provided by EVERY TIME I DIE, ZAO and MISERY SIGNALS. www.DILLINGERESCAPEPLAN.com THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Fall U.S. "Miss Machine" tour: 09/30/04 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place 10/03/04 Worcester, MA - Palladium 10/04/04 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews 10/05/04 Chicago, IL - The Metro / Smart Bar 10/06/04 Indianapolis, IN - Emerson Theatre 10/07/04 St. Louis, MO - Pops 10/09/04 Kalamazoo, MI - Club Soda 10/10/04 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue 10/12/04 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground 10/13/04 Denver, CO - The Ogden 10/15/04 Seattle, WA - Showbox 10/17/04 Portland, OR - Meow Meow 10/18/04 San Francisco, CA - Slim's 10/19/04 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey 10/20/04 Tucson, AZ - The Rock 10/22/04 Dallas, TX - Trees 10/24/04 Houston, TX - Meridian 10/25/04 Little Rock, AR - Vinos 10/26/04 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade 10/28/04 Orlando, FL - House Of Blues 10/29/04 Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall 10/30/04 Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts 10/31/04 Pittsburgh, PA - The World 11/01/04 Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero 11/03/04 Washington, DC - Black Cat 11/04/04 New York, NY - BB King's Blues Club Metal Maniacs

September 2nd, 2004	Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Probot) has agreed to play drums on the next studio longplayer for TROUBLE - meanwhile, the planned unplugged EP "Simple Mind Condition" continues to be delayed. Metal Update TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider has been drafted as an on-air host for VH1 Classic, the channel now in 33 million homes that plays "none of today's hottest music" by artists of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Metal Update Former Carnal Forge guitarist Johan Magnusson has replaced bassist Joakim Harju in CONSTRUCDEAD. Metal Update Bassist Johnny Chow (Systematic) has replaced Meghan Mattox in MY RUIN. Metal Update MORIFADE vocalist Stefan Pettersson has parted ways with the band. Metal Update TAPPING THE VEIN bassist Joe Rolland has left the group for personal reasons. Metal Update SPV Records has signed Helloween. Metal Update SATHANAS will be releasing a new mcd ''FLESH FOR THE DEVIL" on STILLDEAD PROD. in few months. Artwork by Chris Moyen. AGONIA RECORDS will be releasing a split cd with ACHERON and SATHANAS early 2005. For info contact sathanaspaul@yahoo.com Sathanas site http://sathanas.cjb.net/ DRY KILL LOGIC RETURNS WITH A VENGEANCE NEW ALBUM DUE OCTOBER 5 BAND TAKES EXPLOSIVE SHOW ON THE ROAD w/Nonpoint & Skindred August 12, 2004 • New York City - Three years after the release of their punishing disc "The Darker Side of Nonsense," Dry Kill Logic (formerly known as Hinge) are back with a new album and a new approach. "The Dead and Dreaming," the band’s most cohesive and dynamic offering to date, is set to be unleashed October 5 on Psychodrama Records through Repossession. A follow-up to the highly acclaimed "Darker Side," which topped 100,000 in sales and which Amazon called “genuinely unhinged,” “wild-eyed” and “bolt-tight,” the new album combines the ferocity of thrash and death metal with the lyrical relevance of punk and smatterings of melodic classic rock. The band continues to feature incendiary frontman Cliff Rigano and drummer Phil Arcuri plus new guitarist Jason Bozzi (ex-Gargantua Soul) and bassist Danny Horboychuk (ex-Down for Low). Arcuri and Bozzi penned most of the visceral music for "The Dead and Dreaming" while Rigano wrote the poignant lyrics. Dry Kill Logic play with the intensity of a salvo of cluster bombs in the studio, and they’re equally explosive onstage, as they’ve proven on stints with Fear Factory, Kittie and others. On September 22, they will return to the road with Nonpoint and Skindred to support the new album. Among the album's new tracks, “Lost” is a whirlwind of pummeling rhythms and squalling guitar riffs while the first single “Paper Tiger” is an evocative number that contrasts verses of bruising metal with choruses awash in textural guitars and soaring vocals. An equally evocative video for this track, directed by Dale Restighini (Shadows Fall, Fear Factory) was just completed. “We really wanted to write an album that had songs people could connect with, and not stuff that sounds like everything else,” Rigano says. “The music that makes the most impact on people is what they can hear the sincerity and the heart in.” Dry Kill Logic started writing "The Dead and Dreaming" while on tour in 2002, and finished the writing process at their home studio. They entered Millbrook Sound to record with producers Eddie Wohl and Rob Caggiano, and finished the CD at the Scrap 60 Studios in New York City. Dry Kill Logic also takes a new approach with this release, one which melds their previous label experience with the DIY ethos they have always embraced. On the heels of two self-released albums -- 1998’s Cause Moshing is Good Fun! and 1999’s Elemental Evil -- on their own label Psychodrama, and "The Darker Side of Nonsense," released on Roadrunner in 2001, the band has chosen to return to their own label, enabling it to once again call its own shots and do it their way. They entered into a unique partnership with Repossession Records, the new enterprise founded by former MCA label executive Gary Ashley, who is responsible for the success of acts such as Garbage & Blink 182 as well as the highly acclaimed merger of punk label, Drive-Thru Records with MCA. In conjunction with DKL's label Psychodrama, Repossession will release the disc and allow the band greater control over the business, financial and creative aspects of their career. Benefits so far include the ability to get their music in video games, TV and soundtracks without getting caught up in traditional red tape - Dry Kill Logic's riffs have been heard in games by Eidos, Midway and Activision, as well as in the 'Viva La Bam' and releases from Frontier Films, Fleshwound Films, H-Bomb Films and many others. "It’s important to just take control of your life and not allow anyone to force you into compromising your integrity," Rigano concludes. "For me, this record is really about overcoming adversity and taking back control. I can’t say the last two-and-a-half years in this band have been easy. But we’ve learned a lot from what we’ve been through, and we’re still around and I think there’s a great story in that.” Tour dates are as follows: Day - Date - City - Venue SEPTEMBER w/ Nonpoint / Skindred Wed - 9/22 - Duluth, MN - Kirby Rafters (U. Minnesota) Thu - 9/23 - Madison, WI - Luther's Blues Fri - 9/24 - Chicago, IL - Double Door Sat - 9/25 - Buffalo, NY - Showplace Theatre Sun - 9/26 - Boston, MA - Locobazooka Mon - 9/27 - Providence, RI - Lupo's @ the Strand Tue - 9/28 - Millvale, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre Wed - 9/29 - Long Island, NY - Downtown RECORD RELEASE EVENT Thu - 9/30 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom OCTOBER Mon - 10/4 - Lexington, KY - Verve Concert Hall Tue - 10/5 - Knoxville, TN - Blue Cat's Wed - 10/6 - Raleigh, NC - Martin St. Music Hall Fri - 10/8 - Spartanburg, SC - Ground Zero Sat - 10/9 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade As of 8/10/04 ...........MORE DATES FORTHCOMING............... www.drykilllogic.com DIO Releases Majestic Epic Master Of The Moon Through Sanctuary Records on August 31 DIO. The name is legend; the voice an archetype in the annals of hard rock; the music unmistakably enchanting and riveting. Lauded by both Jack Black’s Tenacious D outfit and pro wrestler Chris Jericho of the WWE (via Fozzy, his musical alter ego), Ronnie James Dio is more than a memorable entertainer; he is a force of nature. Continuing his grand tradition of composing imaginative and thought-provoking rock music, DIO is proud to release its latest opus, Master Of The Moon through Sanctuary Records on August 31st. Beyond the trademark lyrical content (consisting of imagery depicting dark fantasy fused with psychological anxiety), DIO’s music is as potent as ever, each track crafted with the precision and force of a fervent shark attack. Master Of The Moon is a rapturous one-two punch of volatile rock music, with each composition destined to become classic, alongside such DIO notables as “Holy Diver”, “The Last In Line”, “Rock ‘N’ Roll Children”, “Sunset Superman”, and “Rainbow In The Dark”. Assisting Ronnie on this journey of passion and tragedy are guitarist Craig Goldy, drummer Simon Wright, keyboardist Scott Warren, and bassist Rudy Sarzo (a legend in his own right, having previously worked with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, and Quiet Riot). Sarzo replaces Jeff Pilson, who departed the band following the recording of Master Of The Moon. Historically, Ronnie James Dio’s voice is unparalleled, having honed his craft on brilliant tenures creating classics (like “Mob Rules”, “Heaven And Hell”, and “Man On The Silver Mountain”) with Black Sabbath and Ritchie Blackmore’s outfit Rainbow. DIO’s legendary status was recently confirmed by VH-1 Television, securing the #1 Most Metal Moment for originating the now infamous “devil horns” hand gesture. Master Of The Moon, with a ten-song tracklisting consisting of “One More For The Road”, “Master Of The Moon”, “End of the World”, “Shivers”, “The Man Who Would Be King”, “The Eyes”, “Living The Life”, “I Am”, “Death By Love”, and “In Dreams” transcends DIO’s previous efforts, adding a more contemporary and, at times, brutal edge to the classic DIO mythos. As with each manifestation of DIO, rock music fans can expect a captivating world tour to commence this autumn, complete with DIO’s incomparable showmanship. A new night falls upon the music scene with the emergence of the Master Of The Moon. www.ronniejamesdio.com Texas Metalheads BYFIST who feature in their ranks members of David Wayne's REVEREND are pleased to anounce the launching of the OFFICIAL BYFIST website at www.Byfist.com. This site is jammed packed with current news and information past and present, while your there please sign up for the BYFIST newsletter and the BYFIST message board/Forum. For more information go to www.metalagesrecords.com, www.Davey-Lee.com and www.Byfist1.tripod.com. BYFIST you won't regret it !!!!!!!! This site is brought to you by BKY Productions. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE/FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES TOUR DATES Recording artist FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES will begin their tour opening for KILLSWITCH ENGAGE covering over 30 cities across the U.S. The tour will kickoff August 17th in New Haven, Connecticut. For any interviews or live show reviews please email me back. We feel that the band have really infiltrated the metal community and would love your help in making sure people read about it! This Long Island based band have been slowly creeping up on everyone since the release of their first record back in 2002. This release is up to 60,000 copies sold, currently selling about 600 copies a week. So far sales of their second full length release The Fiction We Live (Vagrant records) released in November of 2003 is up to 95,000 sold. Basically the band is selling around 900 copies a week of the record . Rolling Stone have had this to say, "Aggro-rock tempered with acoustic interludes, piano ballads and two lead vocalists-one of whom is the drummer. A punk band that rocks hard and has a softer side." They've also done television appearances on such programs as IMX on FUSE and Headbanger's Ball on MTV. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE/FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES 8.17.04 New Haven, CT- Toad's Place 8.18.04 Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock 8.19.04 Richmond, VA - Alley Katz 8.20.04 Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall 8.21.04 Jacksonville, FL - Freebird Cafe 8.22.04 Tallahassee, FL - Floyd's Music Store 8.24.04 Lubbock, TX - Jakes's Sports CafÃ© 8.25.04 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad 8.26.04 Tucson, AZ - The Rock 8.27.04 Pomona, CA - Glasshouse 8.28.04 Sacramento, CA - Colonial Theatre 8.30.04 Chico, CA - The Senator Theatre 9.01.04 Boise, ID - The Big Easy 9.02.04 Spokane, WA - Big Easy Concert House 9.03.04 Calgary, AB- MacEwan Hall 9.04.04 Edmonton, AB - Red's Ent. Complex 9.05.04 Regina, SK - Riddell Hall 9.06.04 Winnipeg, MB - West End Cult. Center 9.08.04 Omaha, NE - Ranch Bowl 9.09.04 Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom 9.10.04 Little Rock, AR - Vinos 9.11.04 Nashville, TN - Rocketown 9.12.04 Louisville, KY- Headliners Music Hall 9.13.04 Huntington, WV - Banana Joe's 9.15.04 Ottawa, ON - Capital Music Hall 9.17.04 Syracuse, NY - Club Tundra 9.18.04 Worcester, MA - Palladium 9.19.04 Manchester, NH - Bombshelter Metal Maniacs MESHUGGAH: Top 25 Most Important Bands in the Metal #1, Alternative Press Top 69 Greatest Hard Rock Albums of All Time #12, Revolver Top 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists #35, Guitar World All time Top 100 Underground Bands #23, Hit Parader All time Top 100 Metal Bands #91, Hit Parader Top 100 Metal Albums of All Time, Nothing, Hit Parader Top Albums 2002 #14, Terrorizer Top 10 CD's of 2002 #8, Metal Maniacs Top 11 Metal Albums of 2002 #5, Metal Edge Most Intriguing Live Show, Harder Beat Magazine, Dallas "...one of the most important hard & heavy bands," Rolling Stone "The band to best piss off the neighbors," Jack Osbourne Meshuggah are back like you've never heard them before. The band's new CD, I, is composed of a single 21 minute song that will take you on a journey through both the familiar and the enthrallingly foreign. The song, which tells the story of one man's struggle to determine whether he's the bringer of the apocalypse or a raving lunatic, is filled with stellar riffing, mindblowing rhythm changes and heart-stopping vocals. The disc is being released by Fractured Transmitter records, the new label founded by Mushroomhead frontman J. Mann (Popson), and will be in chains September 14. The Swedes will be making themselves available to talk about the most extreme and ambitious project of their career. Metal Maniacs PREMONITIONS OF WAR TOUR DATES: 08.13 Indianapolis IN @ Emerson Theater w/ Breather Resist, The Dream is Dead 08.15 Cincinnati OH @ Sudsy Malone's w/ Burnt By The Sun 08.16 Nashville TN @ The Muse 08.17 Oklahoma City OK @ The Conservatory w/ Burnt By The Sun & Between The Buried and Me 08.18 Albuquerque NM @ the Launch Pad 08.19 Phoenix AZ @ Modified 08.20 San Diego CA @ Che Cafe 08.21 Bakersfield CA @ Jerry's Pizza 08.22 Corona CA @ Showcase Theatre 08.23 San Francisco CA @ Pound SF 08.24 Portland OR @ Meow Meow 08.25 Seattle WA @ Studio Seven 08.27 Denver CO @ Rock Island 08.28 Kansas City MO @ El Torreon 08.29 St. Louis MO @ Creepy Crawl 09.03 Toledo OH @ Mickey Finn's Pub w/ Breather Resist, Lickgoldensky 09.04 Detroit MI @ Bottle Rocket Fest w/ Psyopus, Bury Your Dead, Embrace Today 09.05 Dayton OH @ Knights of Columbus w/ Paria w/ Six Feet Under, Misery Signals, Internal Bleeding 09.07 Rockford IL @ Forest Hills Lodge 09.08 St. Paul MN @ The Lab 09.09 Fargo ND @ Playmakers 09.10 Des Moines IA @ Hairy Mary's 09.11 Dallas TX @ DFW Metalfest - Lonestar Park w/ Cephalic Carnage, Mastodon, Misery Index 09.12 Houston TX @ Texas Murderfest - International Ballroom 09.14 Phoenix, AZ @ Big Fish Pub 09.15 Albuquerque NM @ The Launchpad 09.16 Las Vegas NV @ The Roadhouse Casino 09.17 Southgate CA @ The Allen Theatre 09.18 Corona CA @ Showcase Theatre 09.19 Grand Junction CO @ Mesa Theatre 09.20 Denver CO @ Climax Theatre 09.21 Omaha NE @ Ranch Bowl 09.22 Kansas City MO @ El Torreon 09.23 Nashville TN @ The Muse 09.24 Atlanta GA @ The Masquerade Metal Maniacs Neoblast Records is proud to announce the signing of New Jersey based death metal veteran VICIOUS CIRCLE [www.viciouscircle.tv]. The troupe will release their first Neoblast full-length in late 2004. Vicious Circle (Darrell - vocals, Vinny - guitar, Dave - drums and Mel - bass), formed in 1989, has become a brutal and relentless entity within their genre and have made a severe impact on the Metal scene over the past 15 years. The album will be released in North America on November 2nd, 2004 and in Europe on November 15th. www.neoblast.com Metal Maniacs Moonfog update! A twelve-camera production crew filmed SATYRICON’s performance at last weekend’s Wacken Open Air festival for an upcoming music video for the track "Repined Bastard Nation." The Norwegian black metallers co-headlined the festival with Nocturno Culto, guitarist and vocalist from influential black metal band, DARKTHRONE who joined Satyricon on stage to perform some of DARKTHRONE’s most celebrated classics. Nocturno Culto also played guitar on final track, "Mother North," from SATYRICON’s highly acclaimed album Nemesis Divina where he features under the name of Kveldulv. The joint legendary performance, held in front of over 40,000 people, broke ‘a new crowd record’ and was the last of its kind according to both camps. The event was later described as a historical moment and a turning point for black metal by insiders. "Repined Bastard Nation" originates from SATYRICON's latest album, Volcano, released in Europe through Capitol Records in September 2002 and most recently in the U.S. through the Sony Music imprint EatUrMusic, the label run by SYSTEM OF A DOWN guitarist, Daron Malakian. DARKTHRONE’s latest opus, Sardonic Wrath is available through Moonfog from 6th September. http://www.moonfog.com/ Metal Maniacs WAR & PEACE HIT THE ROAD IN SUPPORT OF LATEST RELEASE “THE WALLS HAVE EYES” HOLLYWOOD (August 15, 2004) – Jeff Pilson's WAR & PEACE will hit the road to support their latest release "The Walls Have Eyes” on Z Records in Europe Pilson has performed as a session bassist and singer on many records over the last decade, and is now focusing on his production work of his longtime project, WAR & PEACE with new CD, "The Walls Have Eyes." With this release, Pilson continues the tradition of heavy melodic rock ala Dokken and Lynch/Pilson, but in this he plays all the instruments and does all the songwriting himself with the exception of the song, "Desperate Hearts", co-written with fellow Rock Star alumni, Jason Bonham. Also featured is a brilliant guitar solo by Italian virtuoso Alex Masi on "Stranger In My Own Land", a track that was also featured on a 2002 charity record for the victims of the September 11, 2001 tragedy. The following dates have been fully confirmed with hopefully more to follow: August 27 Paladino's Tarzana, CA USA August 28 Brick By Brick San Diego, CA USA September 9 Concord, CA (Venue TBA) September 10 The Pound SF San Francisco, CA September 11 The Roadhouse Sacramento, CA September 19th Z ROCK 2004 Liverpool, UK September 20th The Underworld London, UK For more information www.jeffpilson.com or http://www.warandpeace.batcave.net/ Boston’s MELIAH RAGE Reunites and Releases First Studio Album in Over 10 Years on August 24th through Screaming Ferret / Escapi Music Initial Pressing of Barely Human to Include Bonus Disc Unfinished Business Featuring Godsmack’s Sully Erna Boston’s reformed metal heroes MELIAH RAGE are primed to make 2004 truly a landmark year for the band. Recently having their music featured on an episode of FOX TV’s hit series The Shield, MELIAH RAGE is following the success with a brand new studio album, their first in over a decade. The nine-track sledgehammer of sonic vengeance Barely Human is slated for release on Screaming Ferret Wreckords in coordination with Escapi Music and Navarre Distribution on August 24th. A major North American tour will soon follow. Guitarist Anthony Nichols, guitarist Jim Koury and bass guitarist Jesse Johnson, all original members, are joined by new vocalist Paul Souza and drummer Barry Spillberg (formerly of Wargasm) on Barely Human. Original vocalist Mike Munro decided not to take part in the Meliah Rage reunion in order to focus on family. The tracklisting for this monumental release includes: Hate Machine Rigid Invincible Bloodbath Barely Human Hell Song Ungodly Motor Psycho Wrong Place, Right Time Barely Human was produced by Joe Moody and Nichols. Moody also recorded and mixed the album at Danger Multitrack in Providence, RI. All songs were written by Nichols and Souza except "The Wrong Place" which was written by Nichols, Souza and Clark Lush and "Ungodly" which was written by Nichols, Souza and Spillberg. Nichols completed all musical arrangements and Souza wrote all lyrics for the album. Bob Mayo, formerly of Wargasm and a one-time Meliah Rage member, contributes special bass tracks on "Invincible." As an added bonus, the initial pressing of Barely Human will include a bonus disc, the previously unreleased album Unfinished Business, which features performances by Godsmack's Sully Erna on drums. Originally recorded in 1992, the tracks on Unfinished Business were intended as demos in order to secure a new record deal, upon the band’s departure from Epic Records. Formed by Nichols formed in Boston in 1985, Meliah Rage was named for the Meliah Indians' practice of taking opium to prepare for battle. The original lineup included Nichols, Koury, Munro, Johnson and drummer Stu Dowie. They stood out as the only metal band around, since Boston is renowned as a college town which supported big alternative and hardcore music scenes. Nichols played briefly with the hardcore icons Gang Green and that connection led to management and label interest for Meliah Rage. The band signed with Epic in 1988 and released the debut Kill to Survive. Intense touring followed and a live EP, Live Kill, was issued in 1989. The second studio album, Solitary Solitude, was released on Epic in 1990. The changing musical tide in the early 1990s resulted in Meliah Rage leaving Epic in 1992. The band soldiered on with a new rhythm section consisting of Sully Erna and bassist Keith Vogele. Erna stayed with the band for 18 months. Several side projects were pursued but didn't produce, so Meliah Rage reunited in 1995 with Nichols, Koury and Munro along with Mayo and drummer Dave Barcos. The album Death Valley Dream appeared in 1996. Now, Meliah Rage is back again! Despite weathering personnel changes and changes in the musical tide, the band has endured. Meliah Rage is here to stay. Meliah Rage joins a proud group of classic metal bands, like Anvil, Candlemass, Dismember, and Trouble, who have experienced rejuvenation and renewed interest through the work and partnership with Screaming Ferret Wreckords, LLC, & Escapi Music, organizations designed to further expose new talent and to introduce groundbreaking classics to a new audience. Upcoming releases from the united labels include Canadian Metal legends Anvil’s latest slamfest Back To Basics, Texas-based Tearabyte’s new doomfest Gloom Factory, a reissue of Nuclear Assault drummer Glenn Evans’ rare CIA release Attitude, Swedish death metal pioneers Dismember’s debut live DVD Live Blasphemies, doom-rock legends Trouble’s new DVD Live In Stockholm, and many, many more. www.meliahrage.com www.screamingferret.com www.escapi.com Screaming Ferret Wreckords In Conjunction with Escapi Music Unveil New ANVIL Studio Effort August 24th Legendary Hard Rock act to have Ten Vintage Classics reissued This Fall Over the past few years, Screaming Ferret Wreckords, LLC has aligned itself with budding new artists, as well as a selection of traditional metal bands in an effort to reintroduce lost classics to the audience of the New Millennium. Having recently joined forces with upstart Swedish entertainment organization Escapi Music and Navarre Distribution, the label is now proud to present a campaign to introduce Toronto, Ontario legends ANVIL to the new generation of metal fans. The campaign includes the domestic reissue of several catalogue titles (some of which are either out of print or never before available in the US), as well as the brand new studio album Back To Basics. For over 2 decades, ANVIL has been a band that firmly understood that Metal should not be taken completely seriously. The band’s brand of anthemic metal fuses intense, piercing metal with witty social sarcasm to create a unique brand of music rarely seen and never equaled. Back To Basics, released on August 24th, and produced by renowned Canadian metal mastermind Pierre Rémillard (who had produced 2 previous Anvil albums, as well as 4 from Cryptopsy, and titles from Gorguts, Quo Vadis, and Kataklysm) is described by frontman/guitarist Steven “Lips” Kudlow as “a great pounding feel, like Accept meets Ozzy's Bark At the Moon.” The tracklisting includes: Fuel For the Fire Can't Catch Me (When My Pants Are Down) Keep It Up Go Away Song of Pain Bottom Feeder You Get What You Pay For Cruel World The Chainsaw Fast Driver The initial run of Back To Basics will also feature a bonus live DVD Live At Wacken 1998, featuring such frenzied standards as “Five Knuckle Shuffle”, “Smoking Green”, “Old School”, “Winged Assassins”, “Forged In Fire”, “March of the Crabs”, “Metal On Metal”, “666”, and “Mothra”. Screaming Ferret & Escapi will soon be releasing a number of classic ANVIL albums; discs that defined and secured the band’s status in the true heavy metal elite. Titles include three currently out-of-print releases: 1987’s Strength Of Steel (which featured such classics as “Concrete Jungle”, “Straight Between The Eyes”, and “Mad Dog”, the song that yielded a quite humorous video that received recurrent airplay on MTV’s original Headbangers Ball program), 1988’s Pound For Pound (featuring “Blood On The Ice” and “Toe Jam”), 1989’s Past & Present Live (a brilliant live set capturing such seminal ANVIL anthems as “Forged In Fire”, “Metal on Metal”, “March of the Crabs”, and “Mothra”). SFW is also releasing a number of titles that never received a proper United States release, including 1991’s Worth The Weight, 1996’s Plugged In Permanent, 1997’s Absolutely No Alternative, 1998’s Speed Of Sound, 2001’s Plenty Of Power, 2002’s Still Going Strong, and the special 1999 Anthology of Anvil, the perfect introductory piece to the manic, semi-insane world of ANVIL. All titles will be re-mastered and will contain bonus tracks. Lips is shocked and thrilled with this development in the band’s career: “I can't believe after a quarter of a century we will finally be released to the unsuspecting American audience. I've never understood after all these years why Anvil has done so little in the United States in the way of getting our recordings released, as well as touring. It is a true tragedy if not a crime! For those people who have never heard of us, it might be a surprise to find out we've been recording music before the existence of what was once called Heavy Metal, and to be more exact NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal). Our first album came out in 81, however all the tracks on it were written over a long period of time, some dating back as far as 73 or 74! This new opportunity to release new and back catalog would not have come true if it weren't for the bravery and dedication to true metal by Screaming Ferret and Escapi Music. We have been pleasing European audiences for years and hope with all our might that we can do the same in America.” Anvil joins a proud group of classic metal bands, like Meliah Rage, Candlemass, Dismember, and Trouble, who have experienced rejuvenation and renewed interest through the work and partnership with Screaming Ferret Wreckords, LLC, & Escapi Music, organizations designed to further expose new talent and to introduce groundbreaking classics to a new audience. Upcoming releases from the united labels include Meliah Rage’s first studio album in over a decade (Barely Human – which includes a special bonus disc featuring Godsmack’s Sully Erna), Texas-based Tearabyte’s new doomfest Gloom Factory, a reissue of Nuclear Assault drummer Glenn Evans’ rare CIA release Attitude, Swedish death metal pioneers Dismember’s debut live DVD Live Blasphemies, doom-rock legends Trouble’s new DVD Live In Stockholm, and many, many more. www.anvilmetal.tk www.screamingferret.com www.escapi.com STEEL ATTACK + EXICTER + 3rd. band to be confirmed Europe Tourdates: 08.10.2004 D-Osnabrück, Tor 3 09.10.2004 NL-Tilburg, 013 10.10.2004 NL-Zaandam, Kade 11.10.2004 D-Essen, Zeche Carl 12.10.2004 D-Berlin, K17 13.10.2004 D-Trier, ExHaus 14.10.2004 D-Heidelberg, Schwimmbad Musikclub 15.10.2004 Italy, t.b.a. 16.10.2004 CH-Winterthur/Zürich, Alte Kaserne 17.10.2004 B-Vosselaar, Biebob ...LIFE AFTER ROB ZOMBIE... AS SCUM OF THE EARTH GUITARIST, RIGGS TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM OCTOBER 26 FEATURES MIKE & JOHN TEMPESTA (Powerman5000 & Zombie) AMONG OTHERS CD FEATURES U-MIX IT TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS INTERACTIVE SONG REMIX August 18, 2004 • New York City - While playing guitar with Rob Zombie for six years, notorious rocker Riggs made a name for himself that he is now claiming as his own. As Scum of the Earth, featuring Riggs and friends, including Powerman 5000 guitarist Mike Tempesta, Mike's brother and Zombie drummer John Tempesta, SOAD drummer John Dolmayan, and old friends, bassist Clay Campbell and drummer Seven, they will release "Blah… Blah… Blah…Love Songs for the New Millennium," October 26 on Eclipse Records. The album was written by Riggs with collaborative help from his friends and recorded at Belt of Orion Studios in Los Angeles. Riggs produced the record, which was mixed by Frank Gryner (Rob Zombie, A Perfect Circle) & Brandon Belski (Velvet Revolver, Staind, Static-X). The sounds of Scum are immediately familiar, yet not derivative. Riggs, the architect of Zombie’s high-tech guitar grind has reformatted his signature tone for a new era, and achieved a vibrant vibe that is simultaneously angry, sleazy and blunt as a battering ram smashing through a trailer park home. His scathing vocal technique is as spine chilling as it is powerful. “I didn’t really have a band or anything in the beginning,” Riggs says. “I just had all these songs, and I picked the best ones and then asked some people to help me out. It’s amazing how well everything came together. Mike Tempesta even ended up contributing 2 tracks of his own.” “Get Your Dead On” and “Altargirl 13” the two songs written by Tempesta with Riggs, offer a turbo blast of writhing wah-wah guitars, and skittering beats compliments of his brother and Rob Zombie drummer John Tempesta. This is the first time the two have performed on a record together. "Get Your Dead On," the first single, will also feature UmixIt™ interactive technology, which will allow the listener to isolate, violate and remix on their computer, up to 16 audio tracks of the song by emphasizing, cutting back or removing any instrument or vocal. "Blah…" is the first disc ever to be released featuring this new technology. "We are always looking for ways to offer music lovers something that lets them be engaged interactively with their music," says Eclipse label President Chris Poland. "We believe that empowering the consumer and inviting interaction is the way of the future for record labels." UmixIt™, based in New York and formed in 2003, is a joint venture between Enterprise Golden Hawk and Webster Hall Records. Of course, not all of Blah… Blah… Blah… is raw, fist-in-your-face metal. “Little Spider” is an ominous acoustic-based song with orchestral percussion by SOAD drummer John Dolmayan. “Pornstar Champion,” a track originally recorded as a musical score for the "Any Given Sunday” soundtrack, is a groove-heavy mix of rhythms, hard rock riffs and samples from Queen’s “We Will Rock You.” Written by Riggs and producer Michael Beinhorn (Korn, Chili Peppers), it was produced by Beinhorn & Irv Gotti. Scum of the Earth have crafted a rhythmic engine that’s immediate and propulsive. The moniker? Riggs always thought it was a cool name. He used it to name his publishing company years ago. He tattooed it across his stomach. They used it to name a Rob Zombie song. He likes Scum. "Its really cool when you have the opportunity to see things come full circle," concludes the infamous guitarist. www.scumoftheearth.com