NUCLEAR BLAST AMERICA NEWS
Darkane, The Defaced, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Kataklysm, Meshuggah, To/Die/For
Table of Contents
1. Latest Additions to Our Webshop
2. Band News
3 . Release Schedule
4 . Tour Dates
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1. Latest Additions to Our Webshop
CM Distro titles:
Empyria - Changing Currents CD - Adventurous, convincing melodic heavy metal for fans of Liege Lord, Fates Warning, Obsession and the like. $12.00
Empyria - Sense Of Mind CD - Limited edition version, hand numbered out of 500. Comes in a DVD-style box. $12.00
Mucky Pup - A Boy In A Man's World CD - The fun-loving, riotous 1988 album, now reissued adding live tracks to the hardcore hi-jinks. $11.00
Soulscar - Character Assassination CD - Aggressive, intelligent metal with unmelodic vocals, melodic guitar lines and cleverly constructed sonic layers. $12.00
Thor - Thunderstruck - Tales From The Equinox CD - Man, myth, joke or legend? You decide. 14 songs from various studio sessions, featuring a King Crimson cover. $12.00
Thor - Triumphant CD - Collection of songs from movie soundtracks and various studio sessions, displaying the peculiar metal vision of the irrepressible, unstoppable Canadian god of thunder. $12.00
To order these titles and more, visit: www.centurymedia.com or call us at 1 (800) 250-4600
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2. News
DARKANE - http://www.darkane.com
Darkanes latest masterwork, Expanding Senses, continues to make a big impact with fans old and new alike. Pick up a copy and prepare to be blown away. Expanding Senses is available in stores now.
Hot on the heels of their last juggernaut of an album, 2001s Insanity, the Swedish five-piece have spewed out another gem in Expanding Senses. This eagerly anticipated slab hits all the right marks Unrestrained!
A video for the track Innocence Gone is currently making the rounds on regional video shows keep a watch out for it cause its pretty brutal!
Darkane will make their debut in both the UK and Japan next month. The UK lineup will include Criminal and Descent, as well as local support. The Japanese tour will feature Mastodon and High on Fire and is being dubbed Extreme the Dojo Vol. 5. Tour dates are as follows:
UK:
November 11th Cardiff - Club Ifor Bach
November 12th London - Underworld
November 14th Bristol - The Station.
Japan:
November 17th Tokyo - Shibuya Club Quattro
November 19th Nagoya - Nagoya Club Quattro
November 20th Osaka - Shinsaibashi Club
THE DEFACED - http://www.thedefaced.com
Recording and mixing of the new The Defaced disc finally complete. Axeman Mattias Svensson has this to say of the upcoming material:
The mixing of Karma in Black is done and the result totally speaks for itself. The sound fits the songs very well and we believe that we achieved the goals we set up for the production. No release date has been set yet but we simply can't wait to get the album out.
Here is the track list for Karma in Black:
1. Fumes from the swamp
2. Once in between
3. 10 vs 9
4. Exit body on mass
5. Beneath my swirl
6. A moment of clarity
7. The fading suns
8. Soulsides
9. Forever winding
10. Karma in black
DIMMU BORGIR - http://www.dimmu-borgir.com
Although still enjoying the immense and continued success of Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropy, Dimmu Borgir will enter the studio in March to record the disc that will surely make us all burn in hell. Silenoz was good enough to take a few minutes out of his creative whirlwind to update us on the bands progress:
The new material sounds extremely apocalyptic and militant, grim and somber and there is a distinct presence of no mercy to them. Were extremely excited and confident about the 9 songs weve got so far and were very much looking forward to starting the recording process at Studio Fredman in the beginning of March 2003. Were just gonna keep writing until then and see where it leads us, since we see no reason to hold back when were being this productive and creative.
HAMMERFALL - http://www.hammerfall.net
Kicking off in Portland, Oregon at the Roseland Theater on November 8th, HammerFall celebrates the brotherhood of true heavy metal in grand fashion by supporting the legendary Ronnie James Dio on a North American tour! This marks the bands second crusade through North America. The start of the tour precedes the release of the bands highly anticipated fourth full-length, Crimson Thunder.
Produced by Charly Bauerfeind (Blind Guardian) and recorded at Andy Deris' (Helloween vocalist) Mi Sueno Studios in Tenerife, Spain, Crimson Thunder will be available November 12th. In addition, the video for Crimson Thunders first single, Hearts on Fire, one of the best, most professional music videos weve seen from one of our artists, will be sent off to VH1 and MTV in the coming weeks.
Catch this amazing, rockin tour package including Kings X at a date near you, and be sure to grab a copy of Crimson Thunder so you can sing along at the show!
In related news, on the topic of HammerFall covering the classic Chastain track, Angel of Mercy on Crimson Thunder, David Chastain states, HammerFall is one of my favorite bands and I was both honored and thrilled to have the band cut the track. I just heard their version the other day and they did an incredible job!
IN FLAMES - http://www.inflames.com
Reroute to Remain hasnt allowed In Flames to remain at home for very long. Touring almost nonstop since the North American tour with Slayer began back on August 3rd. Currently, the band is trekking across Europe on tour with Pain and Soilwork through November 4th, after which the band gets a little break to relax, detox and catch up on life before jaunting off for 8 days in Japan, Korea and their first ever show in Taiwan.
Reroute to Remain continues to sell phenomenally as new fans realize what the rest of us have been shouting about for years. If you havent yet picked up your own copy, what are you waiting for go get it now!
On In Flames stunning sixth studio album, Reroute to Remain, [Björn] Gelotte and Jesper Strömblad team up for mean, clean guitar work that bolsters the groups ultra-melodic masterwork of incendiary post-death metal. Guitar One
KATAKLYSM - http://www.kataklysm.net
Kataklysm have returned home after their tour that spread carnage across the Great North. The band returns to the road on December 3rd in Glasgow, Scotland for a month-long European tour. The X-mass Festivals 2002 tour with Kataklysm also includes Six Feet Under, Marduk, Dying Fetus, Hate Eternal, Impaled Nazarene, Immolation, Macabre and Ragnarok. Shadows & Dust, the crowning jewel in Kataklysms 10 year history, is available in stores now. Be sure to check out the great feature on the band in the current issues of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Unrestrained! and Rip N Tear!
Over ten years strengthened, Kataklysms shining hour is upon us and the impending devastation will leave most in their wake Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
MESHUGGAH - http://www.meshuggah.net
On their day off from the Tool tour in Manhattan this past Wednesday, the 30th of October, Meshuggah got the chance to sit down with Juliya from Much Music USA to do an interview for Juliyas Diary which airs on Uranium. As soon as we know when it will air, well be sure to let you know.
The bands Halloween performance at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island included frontman Jens Kidman sporting a blonde mullet wig, corpse paint and a ball cap with Jesus inscribed across the front. Look for the crazy pictures of him in an upcoming issue of Circus Magazine.
Meshuggah drummer extraordinaire, Tomas Haake, recently had this to say about the tour:
Its going great, actually better than expected! Tool and their fans have been really accommodating. Of course some shows have been better than others but I would have to say that the response has been overwhelmingly positive.
In other news, Metallicas Lars Ulrich had the following to say about Meshuggah in a recent interview with Martin Popoff:
You know, I think Meshuggah is brilliant. A lot of that extreme stuff doesn't make much sense to me, but when I heard Meshuggah, and everybody was talking about them at Ozzfest, I just sort of... I just respect it a lot. That type of stuff, it's not something that I listen to on a daily basis but it's interesting to me. And theres not a lot of metal stuff that is that interesting. But like Meshuggah, that's really fucking interesting. You sit there and say, how does he actually play that on drums? And then you start getting into like, well, does he actually play that on drums (laughs)? But it sits in a very different place compared to anything else I've heard.
TO/DIE/FOR - http://www.todieforlove.com
Finnish gothers To/Die/For are currently in Astia studios (Children Of Bodom, Entwine) where they will stay through mid of November to record their third album, Jaded. They are expecting to record ten or eleven new tracks for the disc. Some song titles include: Too Much Aint Enough, Dying Embers, Silence Tells More, and Jaded. Special guest Marko Hietala of Nightwish will provide some additional vocals on the disc.
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3. Release Schedule
October 29
HammerFall Crimson Thunder
January 28
Raunchy Velvet Noise
Therion Live in Midgard
V/A Death is Just the Beginning Vol. 7 (2CD & DVD)
February 11
Stratovarius Elements Part I
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4. Tour dates
HAMMERFALL w/Dio, Kings X
11/8 Roseland Theater - Portland, OR
11/9 Showbox - Seattle, WA
11/10 Fat Tuesdays - Spokane, WA
11/12 The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
11/14 Universal Amphitheater - Universal City, CA
11/15 House Of Blues - Anaheim, CA
11/16 House Of Blues - Las Vegas, NV
11/17 4th & B Theater - San Diego, CA
11/19 Midnight Rodeo - Albuquerque, NM
11/22 Canyon Club - Dallas, TX
11/23 The Backroom Austin, TX
11/24 House Of Blues - New Orleans, LA
11/25 The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
11/27 Pop's - Sauget, IL
11/29 The Quest Minneapolis, MN
11/30 Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
12/1 House Of Blues - Chicago, IL
12/4 Pieres Ft. Wayne, IN
12/5 Annies Cincinnati, OH
12/6 The Odeon Cleveland, OH
12/7 Harpos - Detroit, MI
12/10 Recher Theater Towson, MD
12/11 9:30 Club Washington, DC
12/13 Roseland Ballroom - New York, NY
12/14 Palladium Worcester, MA
12/15 Webster Theater Hartford, CT
MESHUGGAH w/ Tool
11/2 Lawrence Joel Veteran Mem. Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
11/3 Roanoke Civic Center Roanoke, VA
11/5 Civic Center Knoxville, TN
11/7 Leon County Civic Center Tallahassee, FL
11/8 Centroplex Theater Baton Rouge, LA
11/9 Mississippi Coast Coliseum Biloxi, MS
11/12 Freeman Coliseum San Antonio, TX
11/13 Laredo Arena Laredo, TX
11/15 Montague Center Beaumont, TX
11/16 Cox Convention Center Oklahoma City, OK
11/18 Tingley Coliseum Albuquerque, NM
11/19 America West Arena Phoenix, AZ
11/21 Cox Arena San Diego, CA
11/22 Selland Arena Fresno, CA
11/23 Lawlor Events Center Reno, NV
11/24 Long Beach Arena Long Beach, CA
MISERY INDEX
11/12 Ottobar Baltimore, MD w/ Theory Of Ruin
TAPPING THE VEIN
11/9 The Vault - Baltimore MD
11/27 Pontiac - Philadelphia, PA
11/30 Downtime New York, NY
Darkane, The Defaced, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Kataklysm, Meshuggah, To/Die/For
Table of Contents
1. Latest Additions to Our Webshop
2. Band News
3 . Release Schedule
4 . Tour Dates
_____________________________
1. Latest Additions to Our Webshop
CM Distro titles:
Empyria - Changing Currents CD - Adventurous, convincing melodic heavy metal for fans of Liege Lord, Fates Warning, Obsession and the like. $12.00
Empyria - Sense Of Mind CD - Limited edition version, hand numbered out of 500. Comes in a DVD-style box. $12.00
Mucky Pup - A Boy In A Man's World CD - The fun-loving, riotous 1988 album, now reissued adding live tracks to the hardcore hi-jinks. $11.00
Soulscar - Character Assassination CD - Aggressive, intelligent metal with unmelodic vocals, melodic guitar lines and cleverly constructed sonic layers. $12.00
Thor - Thunderstruck - Tales From The Equinox CD - Man, myth, joke or legend? You decide. 14 songs from various studio sessions, featuring a King Crimson cover. $12.00
Thor - Triumphant CD - Collection of songs from movie soundtracks and various studio sessions, displaying the peculiar metal vision of the irrepressible, unstoppable Canadian god of thunder. $12.00
To order these titles and more, visit: www.centurymedia.com or call us at 1 (800) 250-4600
_________________________
2. News
DARKANE - http://www.darkane.com
Darkanes latest masterwork, Expanding Senses, continues to make a big impact with fans old and new alike. Pick up a copy and prepare to be blown away. Expanding Senses is available in stores now.
Hot on the heels of their last juggernaut of an album, 2001s Insanity, the Swedish five-piece have spewed out another gem in Expanding Senses. This eagerly anticipated slab hits all the right marks Unrestrained!
A video for the track Innocence Gone is currently making the rounds on regional video shows keep a watch out for it cause its pretty brutal!
Darkane will make their debut in both the UK and Japan next month. The UK lineup will include Criminal and Descent, as well as local support. The Japanese tour will feature Mastodon and High on Fire and is being dubbed Extreme the Dojo Vol. 5. Tour dates are as follows:
UK:
November 11th Cardiff - Club Ifor Bach
November 12th London - Underworld
November 14th Bristol - The Station.
Japan:
November 17th Tokyo - Shibuya Club Quattro
November 19th Nagoya - Nagoya Club Quattro
November 20th Osaka - Shinsaibashi Club
THE DEFACED - http://www.thedefaced.com
Recording and mixing of the new The Defaced disc finally complete. Axeman Mattias Svensson has this to say of the upcoming material:
The mixing of Karma in Black is done and the result totally speaks for itself. The sound fits the songs very well and we believe that we achieved the goals we set up for the production. No release date has been set yet but we simply can't wait to get the album out.
Here is the track list for Karma in Black:
1. Fumes from the swamp
2. Once in between
3. 10 vs 9
4. Exit body on mass
5. Beneath my swirl
6. A moment of clarity
7. The fading suns
8. Soulsides
9. Forever winding
10. Karma in black
DIMMU BORGIR - http://www.dimmu-borgir.com
Although still enjoying the immense and continued success of Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropy, Dimmu Borgir will enter the studio in March to record the disc that will surely make us all burn in hell. Silenoz was good enough to take a few minutes out of his creative whirlwind to update us on the bands progress:
The new material sounds extremely apocalyptic and militant, grim and somber and there is a distinct presence of no mercy to them. Were extremely excited and confident about the 9 songs weve got so far and were very much looking forward to starting the recording process at Studio Fredman in the beginning of March 2003. Were just gonna keep writing until then and see where it leads us, since we see no reason to hold back when were being this productive and creative.
HAMMERFALL - http://www.hammerfall.net
Kicking off in Portland, Oregon at the Roseland Theater on November 8th, HammerFall celebrates the brotherhood of true heavy metal in grand fashion by supporting the legendary Ronnie James Dio on a North American tour! This marks the bands second crusade through North America. The start of the tour precedes the release of the bands highly anticipated fourth full-length, Crimson Thunder.
Produced by Charly Bauerfeind (Blind Guardian) and recorded at Andy Deris' (Helloween vocalist) Mi Sueno Studios in Tenerife, Spain, Crimson Thunder will be available November 12th. In addition, the video for Crimson Thunders first single, Hearts on Fire, one of the best, most professional music videos weve seen from one of our artists, will be sent off to VH1 and MTV in the coming weeks.
Catch this amazing, rockin tour package including Kings X at a date near you, and be sure to grab a copy of Crimson Thunder so you can sing along at the show!
In related news, on the topic of HammerFall covering the classic Chastain track, Angel of Mercy on Crimson Thunder, David Chastain states, HammerFall is one of my favorite bands and I was both honored and thrilled to have the band cut the track. I just heard their version the other day and they did an incredible job!
IN FLAMES - http://www.inflames.com
Reroute to Remain hasnt allowed In Flames to remain at home for very long. Touring almost nonstop since the North American tour with Slayer began back on August 3rd. Currently, the band is trekking across Europe on tour with Pain and Soilwork through November 4th, after which the band gets a little break to relax, detox and catch up on life before jaunting off for 8 days in Japan, Korea and their first ever show in Taiwan.
Reroute to Remain continues to sell phenomenally as new fans realize what the rest of us have been shouting about for years. If you havent yet picked up your own copy, what are you waiting for go get it now!
On In Flames stunning sixth studio album, Reroute to Remain, [Björn] Gelotte and Jesper Strömblad team up for mean, clean guitar work that bolsters the groups ultra-melodic masterwork of incendiary post-death metal. Guitar One
KATAKLYSM - http://www.kataklysm.net
Kataklysm have returned home after their tour that spread carnage across the Great North. The band returns to the road on December 3rd in Glasgow, Scotland for a month-long European tour. The X-mass Festivals 2002 tour with Kataklysm also includes Six Feet Under, Marduk, Dying Fetus, Hate Eternal, Impaled Nazarene, Immolation, Macabre and Ragnarok. Shadows & Dust, the crowning jewel in Kataklysms 10 year history, is available in stores now. Be sure to check out the great feature on the band in the current issues of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Unrestrained! and Rip N Tear!
Over ten years strengthened, Kataklysms shining hour is upon us and the impending devastation will leave most in their wake Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
MESHUGGAH - http://www.meshuggah.net
On their day off from the Tool tour in Manhattan this past Wednesday, the 30th of October, Meshuggah got the chance to sit down with Juliya from Much Music USA to do an interview for Juliyas Diary which airs on Uranium. As soon as we know when it will air, well be sure to let you know.
The bands Halloween performance at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island included frontman Jens Kidman sporting a blonde mullet wig, corpse paint and a ball cap with Jesus inscribed across the front. Look for the crazy pictures of him in an upcoming issue of Circus Magazine.
Meshuggah drummer extraordinaire, Tomas Haake, recently had this to say about the tour:
Its going great, actually better than expected! Tool and their fans have been really accommodating. Of course some shows have been better than others but I would have to say that the response has been overwhelmingly positive.
In other news, Metallicas Lars Ulrich had the following to say about Meshuggah in a recent interview with Martin Popoff:
You know, I think Meshuggah is brilliant. A lot of that extreme stuff doesn't make much sense to me, but when I heard Meshuggah, and everybody was talking about them at Ozzfest, I just sort of... I just respect it a lot. That type of stuff, it's not something that I listen to on a daily basis but it's interesting to me. And theres not a lot of metal stuff that is that interesting. But like Meshuggah, that's really fucking interesting. You sit there and say, how does he actually play that on drums? And then you start getting into like, well, does he actually play that on drums (laughs)? But it sits in a very different place compared to anything else I've heard.
TO/DIE/FOR - http://www.todieforlove.com
Finnish gothers To/Die/For are currently in Astia studios (Children Of Bodom, Entwine) where they will stay through mid of November to record their third album, Jaded. They are expecting to record ten or eleven new tracks for the disc. Some song titles include: Too Much Aint Enough, Dying Embers, Silence Tells More, and Jaded. Special guest Marko Hietala of Nightwish will provide some additional vocals on the disc.
________________________
3. Release Schedule
October 29
HammerFall Crimson Thunder
January 28
Raunchy Velvet Noise
Therion Live in Midgard
V/A Death is Just the Beginning Vol. 7 (2CD & DVD)
February 11
Stratovarius Elements Part I
_____________________________
4. Tour dates
HAMMERFALL w/Dio, Kings X
11/8 Roseland Theater - Portland, OR
11/9 Showbox - Seattle, WA
11/10 Fat Tuesdays - Spokane, WA
11/12 The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
11/14 Universal Amphitheater - Universal City, CA
11/15 House Of Blues - Anaheim, CA
11/16 House Of Blues - Las Vegas, NV
11/17 4th & B Theater - San Diego, CA
11/19 Midnight Rodeo - Albuquerque, NM
11/22 Canyon Club - Dallas, TX
11/23 The Backroom Austin, TX
11/24 House Of Blues - New Orleans, LA
11/25 The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
11/27 Pop's - Sauget, IL
11/29 The Quest Minneapolis, MN
11/30 Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
12/1 House Of Blues - Chicago, IL
12/4 Pieres Ft. Wayne, IN
12/5 Annies Cincinnati, OH
12/6 The Odeon Cleveland, OH
12/7 Harpos - Detroit, MI
12/10 Recher Theater Towson, MD
12/11 9:30 Club Washington, DC
12/13 Roseland Ballroom - New York, NY
12/14 Palladium Worcester, MA
12/15 Webster Theater Hartford, CT
MESHUGGAH w/ Tool
11/2 Lawrence Joel Veteran Mem. Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
11/3 Roanoke Civic Center Roanoke, VA
11/5 Civic Center Knoxville, TN
11/7 Leon County Civic Center Tallahassee, FL
11/8 Centroplex Theater Baton Rouge, LA
11/9 Mississippi Coast Coliseum Biloxi, MS
11/12 Freeman Coliseum San Antonio, TX
11/13 Laredo Arena Laredo, TX
11/15 Montague Center Beaumont, TX
11/16 Cox Convention Center Oklahoma City, OK
11/18 Tingley Coliseum Albuquerque, NM
11/19 America West Arena Phoenix, AZ
11/21 Cox Arena San Diego, CA
11/22 Selland Arena Fresno, CA
11/23 Lawlor Events Center Reno, NV
11/24 Long Beach Arena Long Beach, CA
MISERY INDEX
11/12 Ottobar Baltimore, MD w/ Theory Of Ruin
TAPPING THE VEIN
11/9 The Vault - Baltimore MD
11/27 Pontiac - Philadelphia, PA
11/30 Downtime New York, NY
tnx
