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NUTS, BOLTS & METAL SHAVINGS by Diane Demeter
Another day that I’m up, before the sun and I’m trying to get this column done by the deadline. As usual I’m running behind and I had to laugh at my horoscope.
Scorpio: Tasks that appear difficult to you today might be more in your own mind than in actuality. Once you get down to the nuts and bolts of things, they could prove to be surprisingly easy.
What a weird coincidence…
After reading that, I decided to chill a bit and go with the ebb and flow because the task will get done, even if it wasn’t done as early as planned. There seems to be a lot more ebb and a lot less flow and the only thing flowing is the coffee. Ha!
METAL! METAL! METAL!
The 5-piece San Francisco Death Metal/Hardcore band, Animosity, just signed to Black Market Activities. Early in March the recording process began on their new full-length CD, Empires. Their first CD, Shut It Down, was on Tribunal Records out in 2003.
Animosity are tour with Into the Moat and Psyopus. Hopefully things are going better for them on the road, because in February the band’s rehearsal space in Watsonville, CA was robbed. That’s gotta suck!
Cattle Decapitation fans! The vinyl picture disc, The Human Jerky, on Accident Prone Records, should be available by the time you read this. You better haul ass though, because it’s limited to only 1,500 copies.
The May issue of Metal Maniacs has a photo of my favorite Midwest metal band, Low Twelve and the caption gave a special mention concerning their upcoming May release, This Side Toward Enemy. Way to go! This isn’t the first time they’ve been in the zine and it won’t be the last.
Speaking of Low Twelve, Pete Altieri, their bassist and vocalist for Low Twelve, has announced that his old band Sacred Oath (old school thrash metal) is recording a new CD of 12 songs that never saw the light of day.
Krank Amplification has signed a deal with Christian Olde Wolbers, bass player for Fear Factory. He’s the very first artist to use the proto type signature head, via Dimebag Darrel design, called the “Krankenstein”.
Fear Factory recently started pre-production on 15 new tunes, for their next album, so we’ll be able to hear the Krankenstein, which Wolbers absolutely loves. The last F.F. album, Bite The Hand That Bleeds, came out last November.
Fu Manchu’s ninth studio album in 14 years, Start The Machine, is out. It has been three years since there’s been any new product from these boys and that’s a long, long time. Their label (DRT Entertainment) says this album is – “Their most aggressive and pissed-off release to date.”
Also out now on DRT is the new Clutch CD, Blast Tyrant.
Two important items recently reported in FMQB (radio trade magazine). One is information concerning Damageplan, via billboard.com.
Damageplan manager, Paul Bassman had this update –– “There were recordings the band laid down prior to Dimebag’s death that are near completion. Vinnie Paul has said there will be a follow-up album down the road, as Dime would have wanted his music to be heard.” That disc will fly off the shelves!
The second item of news is, New York’s Life Of Agony has re-united. In May, Epic Records will release, Broken Valley. The last we heard from LOL was in 1997 with, Soul Searching Sun.
Can you believe it’s the 20-year anniversary of Overkill’s debut, Feel The Fire? The 14th Overkill album, RELIXIV, is now available on Spitfire Records.
Other new CD’s to check out are, Cephalic Carnage’s Anomalies, Origin’s Echoes of Decimation, also available on Picture Disc and Unsane’s Blood Run CD and Vinyl 12”. All will hit retail stores April 26th.
Café Lura will be a headbanger’s heaven come April 29th, when Origin, Crematorium, Vehemence, The Esoteric and The Red Death will deliver what is sure to be a killer show.
The Bottom Lounge in Chicago is the place to be on May 3rd. Mastodon with Death By Stereo and Cult of Luna will undoubtedly tear sh*t up. Gotta love it!
In June, on the 5th, Joe’s in Chicago will be taken over by Skinless with Deicide, Misery Index, Passion and Immolation.
I admit from the get go that what I’m about to tell you, is not considered Metal, but as kick-ass tuneage goes, this qualifies. Somehow I missed out on George Thorogood’s 30th Anniversary Live CD, which has been out since last October.
Recorded in London during May 2004, George laid down seventeen songs for this one, including everybody’s favorites –– “One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer”, “Drink Alone” and “The Sky Is Crying”.
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