Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Update 6/22/06

[Deathstroke]

Welcome to the 26th edition of the 2006 HR/HM Update.

I thought this week we'd start off with the latest in...

COMINGS & GOINGS

Nocturnal Breed has hired A. E. Rattlehead to replace guitarist T. Thrawn, who left over "internal conflicts."

Ferret Music has unveiled a new label imprint called New Weathermen Records. Story Link (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53969)

Nightrage has signed a record deal with Lifeforce Records.

Guitarist Jack Frost is out of Marshall Law. Statements (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53928) (More Jack Frost/Seven Witches news later in this update!)

Hydrogyn has replaced bassist Dave Moody with Chris Sammons.

ROCK & ROLL INTERVIEWS

Deicide drummer Steve Asheim (http://www.metalstorm.ee/pub/interview.php?interview_id=380)
Satyricon frontman Satyr (http://www.fourteeng.net/satyricon2.html)
Obituary vocalist John Tardy (http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewobituary.html)
Wicked Wisdom singer Jada Pinkett-Smith (http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=4717)
Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster (http://www.fourteeng.net/cannibalcorpse.html)
Singer Glenn Hughes and Lizards bassist Randy Pratt (http://www.rocknrolluniverse.com/rocknrolluniverse_408.htm)
Crumbsuckers Interview (http://www.livingformetal.com/interviews/int.aspx?intID=20)
Rage vocalist Peter Wagners (http://www.rockislife.com/2006interviews/peterwagners.htm)
Danko Jones (http://www.rockislife.com/2006interviews/dankojones.htm)

INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK - Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen (http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Interviews06/Rick%20Nielsen.htm)

ONLINE CD REVIEWS

Def Leppard - Yeah (http://www.rockislife.com/2006reviews/yeah.htm)
Speed\Kill/Hate - Acts of Insanity (http://www.rockislife.com/2006reviews/actsofinsanity.htm)
Eidolon - The Parallel Otherworld (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/showreview.aspx?reviewID=762) (My own review of this CD will be up in a couple of weeks.)

MUSIC TO CHECK OUT!

You can check out two new songs from Eden called "Close Your Eyes" and "Heads Up" via their Myspace page. (http://www.myspace.com/edenopenminds)

Tony Harnell may be out of TNT after one more concert, but he's still got his own music going on. There's four songs to sample from his career HERE. (http://www.myspace.com/tonyharnellonline) (The guy has come a long way from the earlier TNT material that irritated me with the really high pitched vocals.)

Jani Lane (ex-Warrant) has a new project with Ratt drummer Bobby Blotzer called Angel City Outlaws. 3 tracks ("Serial Killer", "Bruised," and "Exit") can be heard via this link. (http://www.myspace.com/janilane) (I listened to the songs and I found them to be quite good, surprisingly enough.)

Here's a couple of CD Showcases for you to check out from Melodicrock.com:

Shooting Star - Circles (http://www.melodicrock.com/showcase/shootingstar-circles.html)
Shark Island - Gathering Of The Faithful (http://www.melodicrock.com/showcase/sharkisland-gatheringofthefaithful.html)

CD & DVD NEWS OF THE WEEK

The new Fair Warning CD Brother's Keeper will be released in Europe by Frontiers Records on August 25th.

The lineup for the reunited band is: Vocalist Tommy Heart, guitarist Helge Engelke, bassist Ule W. Ritgen, and drummer CC Behrens.

The track listing for the album is below and contains 3 audio links to sample the album. I thought the samples sounded pretty good.

01. Don't Keep Me Waiting (http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/fairwarningsample01.mp3)
02. Generation Jedi (http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/fairwarningsample02.mp3)
03. All My Love
04. Rainbow Eyes (http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/fairwarningsample04.mp3)
05. Push Me On
06. Wasted Time
07. The Cry
08. The Way
09. Once Bitten Twice Shy
10. Tell Me Lies
11. In The Dark
12. Still I Believe (Euro Bonus track)
13. All I Wanna Do

The artwork:
http://www.melodicrock.com/fairwarning-brotherskeeper.jpg

Nocturnal Breed's new CD Fields Of Rot will be out late 2006. The title track can be sampled here! (http://www.myspace.com/nocturnalbreed)

The new Firewind album Allegiance is due out July 24th (July 10th in Greece) on Century Media Records.

01. Allegiance
02. Insanity
03. Falling To Pieces
04. Ready To Strike
05. Breaking The Silence (featuring Tara)
06. Deliverance
07. Til The End Of Time
08. Dreamchaser
09. Before The Storm
10. The Essence
11. Where Do We Go From Here?

AFM Records has pushed the release date of the third Circle II Circle CD Burden Of Truth from August 4th to October 6th.

A Ritchie Kotzen compilation from Shrapnel Records is due out June 27th. Unsurprisingly it will be called The Best Of The Shrapnel Years.

Novembers Doom will have their new album The Novella Reservoir out on The End Records by the end of 2006.

After a 2 year delay, The Essential Alice In Chains will be released July 25th in a 2 disc, 28 song set by Sony/Legacy. Track listing and details (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53929)

A posthumous release for Paul Samson is due out September 4th from Angel Air Records. The CD is entitled P.S..... Details (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53937)

Screaming Ferret Wreckords will release the oft-delayed Seven Witches DVD (still untitled) on September 26th. The band's leader/guitarist Jack Frost will have his most recent solo album Out In The Cold released in the US by the label on August 29th.

The Stone Sour CD Come What(ever) May is due August 1st.

The tracklisting is:

01. 30/30-150
02. Come What(ever) May
03. Hell & Consequences
04. Sillyworld
05. Made Of Scars
06. Reborn
07. Your God
08. Through Glass
09. Socio
10. 1st Person
11. Cardiff
12. Zzyxz Road

Here's the information on the Gigantour CD/DVD releases. Information Link (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53908)

Enuff Z'Nuff frontman Donnie Vie will have a solo DVD called DVieD out on July 3rd through Cargo/Livewire. Details! (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53888)

An expanded reissue of the Venom album Cast In Stone is being released. CD information (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53893)
http://eil.com/newGallery/Venom-Cast-In-Stone---E-361487.jpg

The new Unearth album III - In The Eyes Of Fire will be released August 8th on Metal Blade Records. (A limited edition of the CD will come with a DVD with making of the album footage and a live video.)

01. This Glorious Nightmare
02. Giles
03. March Of The Mutes
04. Sanctity Of Brothers
05. The Devil Had Risen
06. This Time Was Mine
07. Unstoppable
08. So It Goes
09. Impostors Kingdom
10. Bled Dry
11. Big Bear And The Hour Of Chaos

A new as yet untitled Hammerfall album is due out October 20th from Nuclear Blast Records.

Epic Records will release the new Audioslave studio album Revelations on September 5th.

01. Revelations
02. One And The Same
03. Sound Of A Gun
04. Until We Fall
05. Original Fire
06. Broken City
07. Somedays
08. Shape Of Things To Come
09. Jewel Of The Summertime
10. Wide Awake
11. Nothing Left To Say But Goodbye
12. Moth

August 23rd will bring the release of a new Loudness DVD called Loudness Liveshocks World Circuit 2006 - North US Tour.

The self-titled second album from American Heartbreak will be released in Japan July 26th through Big M.F./B-Gram Records. (The CD was released in the US on April 18th). The new version will include 2 bonus tracks, acoustic versions of "Last Of The Superheroes" and "Unhappily Ever After." If anyone's interested you can read my review of the CD (minus the bonus tracks obviously) HERE! (http://www.rockislife.com/2006reviews/americanheartbreak.htm)

Warner Bros. Records will release the new Mastodon album Blood Mountain in the fall.

The new Wolf CD The Black Flame is due out this fall in Europe on Century Media Records and in the US on Prosthetic Records.

Century Media will release the new Grave CD As Rapture Comes July 25th.

01. Intro - Day Of Reckoning
02. Burn
03. Through Eternity
04. By Demons Bred
05. Living The Dead Behind
06. Unholy Terror
07. Battle Of Eden
08. Epic Obliteration
09. Them Bones (Alice In Chains cover)
10. As Rapture Comes
http://www.grave.se/art/rapture.jpg

[howyadoin]

Cast In Stone
http://eil.com/newGallery/Venom-Cast-In-Stone---E-361487.jpgMore like "Photoshopped in Plastic".

[Deathstroke]

More like "Photoshopped in Plastic".


Hey I just post the info, I don't do the artwork. Besides, Venom fans will be happy that they get all the extra stuff, I doubt they'll care about the cover all that much.

[TinMan]

WOOOOO!!! I can't wait for the new Stone Sour, they're basically the band that I thank for getting me into the more hardcore metal genres (I didn't really care for it prior to that, I liked some metal and a lot of hard rock).

I swear I've listened to 30/30 150 probably 100 times in the last 2 weeks. In fact I'm listening to it as a I post this.

[Deathstroke]

Here's some Robert Plant news:

A box set entitled Nine Lives will be released September 12th. It will have the seven solo CDs he released with Atlantic Records, Dreamland from Universal, and Mighty Rearranger from Sanctuary. A tenth disc will be a DVD with a Plant interview, concert footbage and much more.

The set will sell for $150.00

[Deathstroke]

The new Wolf CD The Black Flame is due out this fall in Europe on Century Media Records and in the US on Prosthetic Records.


The North American release date has been confirmed for October 3rd.

[Deathstroke]

Here's some Robert Plant news:

A box set entitled Nine Lives will be released September 12th. It will have the seven solo CDs he released with Atlantic Records, Dreamland from Universal, and Mighty Rearranger from Sanctuary. A tenth disc will be a DVD with a Plant interview, concert footbage and much more.

The set will sell for $150.00

The box set has been pushed back until November 14th. Here's the artwork:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GH3QEE.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V61793580_.jpg

[Hiromi]

Ooooo, as pricey as it is I am sorely tempted to aquire that.

[cactusmaac]

Dave Mustaine interview.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2006-08-23T204912Z_01_N23390806_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEGADETH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Megadeth targets United Nations on new album


NEW YORK (Billboard) - Heavy metal maven Dave Mustaine is so angry with the United Nations that he is naming his group Megadeth's next album "United Abominations."

"I was watching TV and saw the trucks that said 'UN' on them and said, 'Man, you are so uncool, ineffective, anything," the singer/guitarist said in a recent Billboard interview.

"I thought, 'Wow, I've got to run with this. I got it -- United Abominations, 'cause it's an abomination what they're doing!"

The longtime bane of American conservatives, the United Nations has been criticized for its slow responses to humanitarian crises in hot spots such as Darfur and Rwanda. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan recently expressed frustration that the group took so long to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hizbollah in Lebanon.

Mustaine said Megadeth is putting the finishing touches on the album, its debut for indie label Roadrunner Records, and it should be ready "some time next year."

"We're taking our time with this one," Mustaine said. "It's a great feeling to make a record and not have our feet held to the fire. One of my heroes growing up was Kiss, but they really frustrated me 'cause they would put out a record just about every year. I couldn't figure that out. I pretty much have a cycle of about 18 months to 24 months between records. I just can't put them out any quicker than that and feel comfortable about them."

Megadeth's last album, "The System Has Failed," was released by Sanctuary in 2004.

Mustaine expects Megadeth to tour heavily in support of "United Abominations," perhaps into 2008. In the meantime, the group is gearing up for the September 6 start of the second Gigantour traveling heavy metal festival in Boise. The tour, which also features Lamb of God, Opeth and Arch Enemy, runs through October 8 in Orlando, Fla.

[Deathstroke]

A posthumous release for Paul Samson is due out September 4th from Angel Air Records. The CD is entitled P.S..... Details (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53937)


The track listing, album art, and more details for this album can be read via this link. (http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=57194)

[Deathstroke]

Novembers Doom will have their new album The Novella Reservoir out on The End Records by the end of 2006.


The band's album is now scheduled for release on February 20th, 2007.

The track listing is:

01. Rain
02. The Novella Reservoir
03. Drown The Inland Mere
04. Twilight Innocence
05. The Voice Of Failure
06. They Were Left To Die
07. Dominate The Human Strain
08. Leaving This