Down is heading out on tour once again in supports of Down III:Over The Under with Evil Army and Weedeater. Down III has sold over 128,000 copies since it’s release on September 25th of 2007, a far cry from their platinum plus selling debut album, NOLA. Of course times have changed and very few metal bands see platinum hits these days with illegal downloading.
Down IV, obviously being the bands fourth album is supposed to be released some time this year. The dates below have been confirmed so far.
Decibel Magazine, Red Music and Metal Blade have teamed up to Search For The Next Great Metal Band. There are quite a few stipulation and rules so you’ll have to head on over to recordstoreday.com and check out all that good stuff. The winning band will get two Krank half stacks, and ESP Guitar or two and some other prizes. Check out the video promo for the contest and get your band entered.
Metal Injection has exclusive footage of God Forbid in the studio. They’ve just posted the third session which can be viewed here. If you haven’t had a chance to download their latest track War Of Attrition, then head on over to http://godforbid1.com/ and sign up to get the new track (If it’s still available).
The first two recording sessions and be viewed below as well. Earthsblood will be available February 24th on Century Media Records.
Corey Taylor has said in the past that if Slipknot were ever to disband then he would go on doing his own thing in the form of acoustic guitars and such. Well Slipknot isn’t disbanding but Taylor is talking about releasing a solo album anyway. Blabbermouth reports:
He says, “It’s something that I’d like to do purely for myself. It’s something that I need to release before I can think about moving on to anything else… In both SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR I’m slightly limited to how I can write and indeed what I can write about. The beauty of doing a solo album is that I can write whatever type of song I want.”
The Diamond Head thing got me thinking this morning. Back in the early 80’s someone started the NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) and somewhere along the line in the near past the NWOAHM (New Wave Of American Heavy Metal) started. So I got to thinking…what other (sub)genres can we do this with? Some of these could be taken seriously and other are pure novelty (Sadly I have to explain that to people). Let’s see…
Highly influential NWOBHM band Diamond Head will be (re)issuing Borrowed Time, Canterbury and Live At The Reading Festival later this year. Bravewords.com reports that this is the first time that Borrowed Time and Canterbury will be issued in a CD format in the UK. The cd’s will be re-mastered and is said to contain previously unreleased bonus material. Keep an eye out for this release in March 2009.
Metal Hammer Magazine is reporting that Lamb Of God are gearing up for a U.S. Mega-tour after their headlining gigs on the Defenders Of The Faith 2 tour. Although I haven’t been able to find anything else on this, I would love to see this concert come to life. Lamb Of God, Children Of Bodom, As I Lay Dying and God Forbid would be an awesome show. Venue’s are going to be sold out and packed to the brim for this one. If anyone has heard anything more about this, please let me know where I can find more info. As soon as I have tour dates I will post them.
I Thought I would start off the new year with a band with a rather odd name. Mermaids…not very metal by any means…but splatter those fishy little wenches and that’s metal as all hell, right?
Splattered Mermaids: Well don’t judge these Swedes by their name. They have a pretty good, brutal death metal sound to them. You can check out some of their songs on Myspace and they are hitting the studio this month in Sweden to record a few songs for a split with Fekalizator.
Of course most American metal fans never hear of these lesser know European bands unless they are signed to one of the larger labels. That’s what’s great about the internet. You get turned on to killer new bands with goofy names every day.
Download Splattered Mermaids - Sliced Girls from Stench Of Flesh. This song isn’t all that great but I’d still like to hear what else they have to offer cause this one is only a little over a minute long.
The above picture is of the bands last album called Stench Of Flesh onBizarre Leprous Productions. This label is also the home to such bands with name such as Spermswamp, Destructive Explosion Of Ana Garland and Reek Of Shit. I’m dead serious, those are real band names.
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