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Metal News.
July's War Room, 'Battle Royale', boasts the biggest line-up so far with Melbourne's Contrive and Frankenbok, and locals Shotpointblank, Truth Corroded and Embodiment 12:14. The Enigma Bar show on Sat 17 July will feature metal DJs and a huge number of album launches including the new A Perfect Murder, Atreyu, In Name & Blood and Unearth (thanks to Stomp), plus the Insision newie thanks to Earache. You'll also get to hear tracks from the new Killswitch Engage and Slipknot albums, courtesy of Roadrunner. Keep an eye out for future War Room nights: set to play future events are Diatribe and Celebrity Minefield, as well as expatriates Captain Cleanoff.
In other Contrive news, the Melbourne trio are set to hit the studio in Aug to begin recording their debut album, 'The Meaning Unseen'. The new release will comprise nine tracks, several of which have already been road-tested live with encouraging results, plus it will also feature a special Taiko drum piece written and performed by skinsman Andrew Haug who is currently studying the ancient Japanese art. Said bass player Tim Stahlmann of 'The Meaning Unseen', "whilst our past work had its influence, the new Contrive material will definitely display our development as songwriters and as a band." Check out the band's website www.contrive.com.au for further updates during the recording process.
Earache has announced the recent signing of progressive-minded metal act Ewigkeit. Meaning 'Eternity' in German and pronounced Ay-vig-kite, Ewigkeit is the brainchild of James Fogarty (aka Mr Fog). Disillusioned with conventional extreme metal (Ewigkeit were formerly considered to be a black metal act), Fogarty has assembled a diverse listening experience on the band's latest album, 'Radio Ixtlan'. Based around the mysterious Mexican Incas, the new album contains enough trippy psychedelia to please fans of Opeth, Killing Joke, The Orb and even Moby. In fact, recent reviews have hailed 'Radio Ixtlan' as "'The Dark Side Of The Moon' for the death metal generation. Ewigkeit's new album will be available in stores from Mon 19 July.
Also out on Mon 19 July is Insision's latest, 'Revealed And Worshipped'. Conceived as the antidote to the easy-on-the-ear harmonies favoured by their Swedish countrymen on recent times, Insision resolutely murder melody with their audio butchery on their new album. Neither meat n' potatoes gore nor technical overload, 'Revealed and Worshipped' is determined to reclaim the core death metal values that have eroded over time. Check out one of the tracks, Imminent Vision, online at www.earache.com/bands/insision/mp3/Imminent_Vision.mp3.
And after many delays, an Australian release date has now been finalised for the new Candiria record, 'What Doesn't Kill You...'. Following a long convalescence after a tour bus crash in which all band members were seriously injured, the aptly-titled 'What Doesn't Kill You...' is characterised less by quirky metal/hardcore/jazz/hip-hop experimentalism and more by straightforward, emotional songwriting. The new album will be in stores from Mon 2 August.
One of the world's most popular melodic metal acts, In Flames, will hit our shores in Sept for a national tour which will showcase songs from all of their seven albums. The Swedish act will be joined by special guests Chimaira, ambassadors of the 'New Wave of American Heavy Metal'. In Flames and Chimaira will perform an all ages show at Heaven on Fri 17 Sept, with tickets on sale Wed 14 July from VenueTix and CIB Ticketing.
Finland-based black/death metal band Shadow Cut, featuring drummer Repe F.W. Misanthrope (Impaled Nazarene) and bass player Mitja Harvilahti (Moonsorrow), will enter the studio later in the year to begin recording their debut album for an early 2005 release. Demo versions of three songs - Throatcuts Nine, Drug/Murder/Them and Inter Arma - can be downloaded at koti.mbnet.fi/javaisa2/hearing.html.
One of the world's most influential extreme metal bands, Napalm Death, have once again chosen to pay tribute to the bands that have influenced them on 'Leaders Not Followers: Part 2', available in Australia from Mon 23 August. A full track listing can be found at www.centurymedia.net/news/napalm_news.htm.
Paradise Lost vocalist Nick Holmes and producer Rhys Fulber are currently in the process of mixing the band's as-yet-untitled follow up to 2002's 'Symbol of Life'. Jeff [Singer, ex-Blaze replaced previous drummer Lee Morris, who left the band earlier this year, citing "personal and musical differences".
Got metal news? Send it to mphillipov@yahoo.com.au
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