NEWS - SEPTEMBER 2002
SUTURE will also be touring the US in October with Internal Suffering and Dislimb to support their debut on Deepsend
HELLOWEEN is said to be nearly done with the prerecording process for its much-anticipated new album at singer Andy Deris' studio, Mi Sueno, in
Tenerife, Spain. An early 2003 release is expected...
LET ME DREAM has posted two MP3s ("Soulshine" and "Roses On Silver Plate") at
http://www.sci.fi/~gore/lmd...
ATROCITY will team up with IN EXTREMO for two Mexican dates at the end of September. The dates are: September 27th - Hardrock Live in
Guadalajara and28th - Circo Volador, Mexico City. Meanwhile, Atrocity are in the process of writing for a new album that should be released in early 2003. It
will be recorded at the band¹s Mastersound Studio, which opened in Stuttgart/Fellbach earlier this year. Atrocity also plan to record a cover of SISTERS OF MERCYs "More" for an upcoming tribute album...
SILENT FORCE, featuring D.C. Cooper (ex-ROYAL HUNT), will be playing a set of warm-up dates before their gig at Atlanta¹s ProgPower festival on November
15th. The dates are: October 31 - Stummsche Reithalle, Neunkirchen/Saar, GER, 2 - St. Cloud, La Celle, FR, 7 - Sputnik Halle, Munster, GER, 8 - Altes E-
Werk, Beckum, GER and 9 - Clarholz, MuK, GER. GB ARTS will support Silent Force on these dates...
KREATOR will tour England and Ireland with support from DESTRUCTION from October 27th at the Woughton Centre in Milton Keynes, England to
November 3rd at the Rosetta Bar in Belfast, North Ireland...
GRAVE DIGGER are in preproduction for their next album, to be recorded from October to December in Germany¹s Principal Studios. The album will be produced by frontman Chris Boltendahl and The Resetti Brothers. According to a statement, "all music is written and the band is working at the final concept and the lyrics.
SENTENCED have been awarded their first ever Gold record in their home country of Finland for breaking 15,000 copies sold of their album The Cold White Light.
A Neil Kernon remixed version of MACABRE¹s Grim Reality album will be released next year via Decomposed Records. In tour news, Macabre will be on the road in North America with CANNIBAL CORPSE, HATE ETERNAL, CATTLE DECAPITATION and CEPHALIC CARNAGE in Novmeber and December, and will also hit Europe in December with SIX FEET UNDER, MARDUK, HATE ETERNAL, DYING FETUS, IMPALED NAZERENE and IMMOLATION...
ENTOMBED Stockholm show on October 12th (at Alcazar) will be recorded live for a possible live release in the near future...
THE PROJECT HATE, featuring lead singer Jörgen Sandström (ENTOMBED, GRAVE), have parted ways with Massacre and are now in search of a new record deal...
PUNGENT STENCH¹s Holy Inquisition tour kicks off on September 8th at Przestrzen Graffenberga in Warsaw, POL. The dates conclude on November 16th at Oho in Oberwart, Austria
LOWBROW, featuring former OBITUARY/SIX FEET UNDER guitarist Allen West, is doing a US tour which begins on September 13th in Tampa, FL
at The Brass Mug and ends on September 26th in Orlando, FL. Check out the lowbrow site for tour updates -
Tour Dates:
09/22/02 - The Daily Grind, North Bay (ON)
09/24/02 - The Apollo, Thunder Bay (ON)
09/26/02 - Royal Albert, Winnipeg (MB)
09/27/02 - TBA, Saskatoon (SK)
09/28/02 - TA Verns, Calgary (AB)
09/29/02 - Masonic Hall, Pentincton (BC)
10/01/02 - Soundgarden, Victoria (BC)
10/02/02 - Cobalt, Vancouver (BC)
10/03/02 - Canmore Hotel, Canmore (AB)
10/04/02 - Fox n' Hound, Edmonton (AB)
10/05/02 - The Moon, Regina (SK)
10/06/02 - Royal Albert, Winnipeg (MB)
10/09/02 - Kathedral, Toronto (ON)
10/10/02 - TBA, Sudbury (ON)
10/11/02 - Underground, Ottawa
The new ANTIGAMA album will be recorded at the beginning of 2003. The working title is "OFFICIAL TRUTH FOR A NEW GENERATION". On October the band will record a few new songs for possible future releases like MCD, split 7"EP’s etc.
TREPHINE News: The "Surgical Preparation" e.p. will be available through their website as of September 21st. Two tracks from that e.p. ,"Auto-erotic Rodent Messiah" and "Resident Advisor" are currently on mp3.com. Go to the music link at:
http://www.trephinemd.com After the cd release show they are going to try and lay low in order to write some material for a new record. They are hoping to begin recording a full length album this winter.