Category Archives: News
Morbid Angel reveal artwork
Morbid Angel, unfortunately not the name of a prostitute I’m sleeping with, but the Death Metal legends, have revealed the artwork for their new single and album.
Their new album, Illud Divinum Insanus will be released on June 7 in the US (June 6 internationally) via Season of Mist.
The artwork for said album, and their first single Nevermore, can be seen after the jump. I wouldn’t bother though, both look like they were drawn by my kid brother after he’s eaten a shit load of sweets.
Devin Townsend releases release date
Well, I got some good news and bad news.
The bad news involved being at a grocery store earlier today. I went into the “10 items or less” lane and this elderly lady was in front of me. For some strange reason, I decided to count the groceries in her cart and she had 11! I politely asked her to leave the line or take one item out because clearly she was breaking rules. She refused to, explaining to me having an extra item wasn’t a big deal! This frustrated me! I know it sounds like I’m pulling a Larry David, but this old bag needed to go into any other line besides the “10 items or less” one! Rules are NOT meant to be broken!
The good news, however, is Devin Towsend has spoken over Twitter and has finally set a release date for his upcoming new albums ‘Ghost‘ and ‘Deconstruction‘.
Looks like the release date for Deconstruction and Ghost is June 20. Info on special presale stuff soon. Thanks for the support!!!
Hurray for Devin Townsend! F U to the granny!
In Flames are happy to be on Century Media
Swedish metallers In Flames recently signed to Century Media records. Lead vocalist, Anders Fridén seems rather excited.
“This is number 10… Album number 10! That we even made it this far, that is amazing. Then, to deliver the album of our career that is something else… It’s fast, slow, heavy and mellow. It’s happy, sad, angry and calm. Sounds Of A Playground Fading is everything we ever done on crack (it’s a metaphor boys and girls), it’s cask strength whisky when it’s THAT perfect moment. Use and abuse!!!!! By the way, we are happy to be in bed with Century Media. They know the business, we know the music, a perfect match. What can possibly go wrong… ha, ha, ha!!!!!!” – Anders Fridén.
Album number 10, eh? Well, they have come a long way. Helped pioneer the Melodic Death Metal genre, trading singers with Dark Tranquility in the early 90s, releasing a masterpiece in 1996, failing to try and sound like Korn years later and continuing to sell a lot of albums for a Metal band. Metal elitists can trash and call them sellouts all they want, but In Flames have accomplished quite a bit over the years.
Make the jump to see when ‘Sounds Of A Playground Fading‘ will be released in your country.
Six Chimaira Under
The new line-up for the coming European Six Feet Under tour has officially been announced. Matt DeVries, rhythm guitarist of Chimaira, will be playing bass on the upcoming tour and join fellow Chimaira guitarist Rob Arnold and former Chimaira drummer Kevin Talley in SFU. So, three members of Chimaira’s selftitled line-up just joined Six Feet Under.
Apparently, they are currently rehearsing, including old Cannibal Corpse songs. Sounds great. I’m personally looking forward to the tour because I’ll see them live next Monday. Pictures of the band rehearsing and screenshots of the official announcements after the jump.
Bang your head, Scotty
William Shatner is not only known for his role of Captain Kirk’s mask in the Halloween movie franchise. He’s pretty much not known at all, because Star Trek got a reboot and our target audience grew up listening to Linkin Park and watching Friends, the greatest sci-fi TV show of all times. Seriously, a guy like Ross would never bang Rachel in real life.
I kid (about William Shatner). He’s a cool dude, and he just got cooler in our little black book. Why? Well, he’s making a new album (and yes, he makes albums), one themed around heavy metal and space (just like Fear Factory, they make heavy metal and take a lot of space), and it’s announced members of Black Label Society, Queen and Deep Purple are involved. He will also receive an Honorary Headbanger award at the Revolver Golden Gods award. What a guy.
