If you order an LotFP Weekly subscription through this Friday 5/17, Issue #29 mails immediately as your first issue!
Order a 52 week subscription and choose two back issues to receive for free, mailed immediately!
Included in LotFP Weekly #29:
A no-holds-barred analysis on the Nightwish-Sinergy situation over Marco Hietala and the future of Nightwish, including several official statements from Hietala and Kim Goss that have since been pulled from their bands' websites.
"The previous public statements by NIGHTWISH indicated that Tarja was going to study in Germany, and wouldnt be back with the band until late 2003 or early 2004. No further announcement had been made, and while LotFP had in print hypothesized that it was just a cover story because saying Tarja is leaving would hurt the upcoming album and tour, it is below the belt and showing hard feelings to go on record and confirm that another bands internal troubles that they want secret. Was it honest for Kimberly to do so? Yeah, its probably true. Did it display no hard feelings? Come on."
An interview with Frank Banx of Angel Dust about their latest album, success in the US, and more.
"We see a lot of bands that simply copies a band selling double or three times what we do, but we dont care anymore. We want to do it with our music, and we dont want to pay too much of our souls to the music business itself. We just do what we like and thats it."
A look at the Piet Sielck statement about oversaturation in the metal marketplace.
"Another thing Piet is saying, without saying it of course, is that the quality of the average CD is somewhere in the neighborhood of shit and suck."
A look at the Nightsky Bequest catalog, the Mithotyn (pre-Falconer) catalog, and the first three Fates Warning albums.
"I wonder if anyone considers anymore that someone actually is going to listen to what they create but for sure, NIGHTSKY BEQUEST is music meant to be listened to."
"MITHOTYN was almost unknown, they dumped the screaming and pulled in an original and fantastic singer and suddenly Falconer is making waves. They arent the only Swedish band to do that. IN FLAMES Jesper Stromblad wanted to work with a clean singer on his material, and thus HAMMERFALL crashed the world in 1997."
"Certainly the best album Ive heard out of 1986 (think about that for a moment SLAYER, METALLICA, MEGADETH, IRON MAIDEN, etc), FATES WARNING made an album thats still fresh and vibrant today."
A complete (!) listing of all of the bands that Dan Swanö has worked with, detailed enough to include categories called "Other Bands Where I Have Been Featured Which Rehearsed At Least Once" and "One Rehearsal/Recording (Not Available Anymore)"
Reviews of the new Dimension Zero, Opera IX, Primal Fear, and Skepticism albums
The week's news and reader mail.
For subscription information:
http://www.mindspring.com/~raggije/ORDER.htm
Order a 52 week subscription and choose two back issues to receive for free, mailed immediately!
Included in LotFP Weekly #29:
A no-holds-barred analysis on the Nightwish-Sinergy situation over Marco Hietala and the future of Nightwish, including several official statements from Hietala and Kim Goss that have since been pulled from their bands' websites.
"The previous public statements by NIGHTWISH indicated that Tarja was going to study in Germany, and wouldnt be back with the band until late 2003 or early 2004. No further announcement had been made, and while LotFP had in print hypothesized that it was just a cover story because saying Tarja is leaving would hurt the upcoming album and tour, it is below the belt and showing hard feelings to go on record and confirm that another bands internal troubles that they want secret. Was it honest for Kimberly to do so? Yeah, its probably true. Did it display no hard feelings? Come on."
An interview with Frank Banx of Angel Dust about their latest album, success in the US, and more.
"We see a lot of bands that simply copies a band selling double or three times what we do, but we dont care anymore. We want to do it with our music, and we dont want to pay too much of our souls to the music business itself. We just do what we like and thats it."
A look at the Piet Sielck statement about oversaturation in the metal marketplace.
"Another thing Piet is saying, without saying it of course, is that the quality of the average CD is somewhere in the neighborhood of shit and suck."
A look at the Nightsky Bequest catalog, the Mithotyn (pre-Falconer) catalog, and the first three Fates Warning albums.
"I wonder if anyone considers anymore that someone actually is going to listen to what they create but for sure, NIGHTSKY BEQUEST is music meant to be listened to."
"MITHOTYN was almost unknown, they dumped the screaming and pulled in an original and fantastic singer and suddenly Falconer is making waves. They arent the only Swedish band to do that. IN FLAMES Jesper Stromblad wanted to work with a clean singer on his material, and thus HAMMERFALL crashed the world in 1997."
"Certainly the best album Ive heard out of 1986 (think about that for a moment SLAYER, METALLICA, MEGADETH, IRON MAIDEN, etc), FATES WARNING made an album thats still fresh and vibrant today."
A complete (!) listing of all of the bands that Dan Swanö has worked with, detailed enough to include categories called "Other Bands Where I Have Been Featured Which Rehearsed At Least Once" and "One Rehearsal/Recording (Not Available Anymore)"
Reviews of the new Dimension Zero, Opera IX, Primal Fear, and Skepticism albums
The week's news and reader mail.
For subscription information:
http://www.mindspring.com/~raggije/ORDER.htm
