August 2002 Archive
...Polish death metal e-zine BORN TO DIE has just released a 70-minute compilation entitled "I Am Death Incarnate" featuring such acts as SIT DOWN STRIKT (Bel); BEHEADED (Mal); SOILS OF FATE (Swe); RESURRECTED (Ger); PYAEMIA (Hol); ENTHRALLMENT (Swe) DRAIN OF IMPURITY (Aus); INIQUITY (Den); RESUSCITATION (Bel); INHUME (Hol); MORTIS DEI (Pol); FLESHTIZED (USA); TYPHOID (Slo); BLOODBOIL (Hol); AZARATH (Pol); RECTAL SLUDGE (Pol); SCYTHE (Ger); BILE (Hol); DISINFECT (Ger);. RELENTLESS (Swe)...
...Zinny J. Jan, ex-vocalist of SHOTGUN MESSIAH, will release his latest solo effort, "City Boy Blues," on Nightmare Records on September 16, 2002...
...Polish death metal kings DECAPITATED have just finished shooting a video for "Spheres Of Madness"...
...ANATA, formerly on the Seasons Of Mist label, have just signed to Earache Records...
...CORPORATION 187's sophomore release will be titled "Perfection In Pain"...
...Russian doomers FOREST STREAM have finished their latest disc entitled "Tears Of Mortal Solitude"...
...MOTORHEAD will release the 25th Anniversary DVD titled “25 & Alive 'Boneshaker': Live At Brixton Academy” on September 3, 2002. The DVD will feature 23 tracks and guest performances from Brian May (QUEEN), Fast Eddie Clark (ex- MOTORHEAD), Whitfield Crane (MEDICINE, LIFE OF AGONY, UGLY KID JOE) and Doro Pesch (DORO, WARLOCK) and other assorted extras. A complete review is forthcoming. Check our review section soon!...
...Z Rock will hold another one of their huge concerts at The Big Bop in Toronto, Canada on March 9, 2003 and will feature performances by SILENT RAGE, VAUGHN, POLEY/PICHLER (ex-DANGER DANGER), NARO, ARABIA, and DANNY DANZI...
...Finland's REQUIEM invite you to check out their video for "Broken Alliance" at this site: http://www.imperiumi.net/video.html...
...INNUENDO's latest CD, "Innuendo Live! @ The Cajun House - Bootleg EP," can be purchased at the band's shows or will be free if you purchase their full-length CD, "Raining In Mexico." For more information visit http://www.innuendorocks.com...
...DVS Records, home to ASHES TO ASHES, has just signed the Denmark-based CHROME SHIFT and a debut CD is expected in early 2003...
...DVS Records are also proud to announce that WOLVERINE have signed to Earache/Elitist Records...
...SLAM ALICE guitarist JACK RICKMAN will be joining former bandmate JIM WOODALL in the studio to record a CD full of songs written by Rickman...
...Sanctuary Records Group and Liquid Audio have signed a Digital Distribution Agreement that will allow fans to download and burn tracks from the Sanctuary Records catalog including songs from IRON MAIDEN, MEGADETH, QUEENSRYCHE, and THE ROLLINS BAND...
...MegaKungFu and Victory Records have teamed up for contests with prizes from ATREYU, VOODOO GLOW SKULLS, and SNAPCASE – visit http://megakungfu.com/contests for more information...
...Chicago-based hardcore/technical metal mavens DEAD TO FALL will record material all throughout the rest of 2002 for a debut CD to be released in early 2003...
...Land Speed Records artists FLUPEJAC are currently in pre-production on their third CD, "The Hard Way"...
...SAMSON founder and guitarist Paul Samson has passed away after a long battle with cancer...
...Erik Rutan has officially departed MORBID ANGEL to focus on HATE ETERNAL...
...Hell just froze over GUNS N ROSES actually played a gig in Hong Kong on August 14, 2002...
...Punkers AUTHORITY ZERO will release "A Passage In Time" on September 10, 2002...
...As a tie-in to his "House Of 1000 Corpses" film, ROB ZOMBIE will be featured in promotion ads and materials for Pete’s Wicked Ale...
...Punkers THE EARLY NOVEMBER have just signed to Drive-Thru Records...
...Montreal-based HAVEN have a newly revised homepage up and running and invite you to check out the mp3s for "Last Day," "Circling," and "Witness" at this site: http://www.havenband.com/mp3_download.htm...
...QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE's latest album, "Songs For The Deaf" - due in stores on August 27, 2002 - will include a limited edition DVD that includes concert footage, backstage material, and a behind-the-scenes look at making "Songs For The Deaf"...
...August 30, 2002 is the street date for IVORY TOWER's revamped and re-issued "Heart of The City"...
...CRY HAVOC's latest CD, "Fuel That Feeds The Fire," will be available in stores on September 30, 2002...
...LEGACY's self-titled debut will be available in stores on October 31, 2002...
...The release of BANGKOK BABES' latest effort, "Locket N Chain," has been delayed - we’ll post news when it becomes available...
...A vinyl version of VYNDYKATOR's "Heaven Sent From Hell" will be released on August 30, 2002 on Outlaw Recordings; the CD version will be released sometime in late 2002...
...Unisound Records will release ALCHEMY X's "11:59:59" in late 2002...
...RISINGFALL, based in Minnesota, has a newly designed web page at http://www.risingfall.com...
... Marty Friedman and Dave Ellefson, two former members of MEGADETH, have teamed up with singer Steve Richards to record the unfinished Buddy Holly song "That Makes It Tough"...
...NINEDENINE are scheduled to play two shows in early September in Bradford and Nottingham respectively; click here for more information http://www.ninedenine.com...
...DARK TRANQUILLITY will replace LACUNA COIL on the IN FLAMES, SENTENCED, KILLSWTICHED ENGAGE tour beginning in September 2002...
...DARK ANGEL have reunited with plans for possible gigs and recordings in the works...
...BRAVEHEART have been recruited to contribute to the soundtrack for "Sector 3"...
...BLOODSAK will be playing at the Martini Lounge in Hollywood, California on Wednesday, September 21, 2002...
...Punkers AUTHORITY ZERO will be touring with the Epitaph Punk-O-Rama Tour; AUTHORITY ZERO will also release their debut, "A Passage In Time," sometime during late September 2002...
...DORO, featuring Doro Pesch, will release “Fight” on September 24, 2002 on SPV Records. The band is currently on tour. Click here for tour dates...
...JOHNNY LOKKE has released his debut CD, "Early Warning" on Big Riff Records which will remind you of a time when metal was ruled by bands such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Black Sabbath. For more information and song samples go to http://www.johnnylokke.com...
...LILLIAN AXE has re-united and is on the road. Click here for tour dates...
...Dave Williams, lead vocalist for
DROWNING POOL, was found dead on his tour bus in Manassas, VA; he
was 30 years old. No reports yet on the cause of Williams' death...
...Retro-thrashers KING'S EVIL have just released "Deletion Of Humanoise" on World Chaos/Crash Music...
...There are rumors circulating that ZOA's "Parade Of Chaos" may in fact be their last CD...
..."Forty Licks" is the title of the ROLLING STONES latest greatest hits package which will feature (you guessed it) forty of the band’s biggest hits from their earliest days to their most recent material...
...SPOCK'S BEARD's latest album is entitled "Snow" and will be released by Metal Blade on August 27, 2002...
...Sweden's own Glam/Sleaze masters NASTY IDOLS have re-released their classic albums "Vicious" and "Cruel Intentions" with never-before-released bonus tracks on Perris Records. Also available from Perris Records is "The Best Of Nasty Idols" which features tracks from all of their albums. The "Vicious" bonus tracks are the studio tracks "Hurt Me" & "Forrest Of Cries". The "Cruel Intentions" bonus tracks are "Sex Shooter - Live" & "Electric Wonderland-Demo Version." NASTY IDOLS have a new album titled “Heroes For Sale” featuring all new studio tracks...
...Jordan Rudess, of DREAM THEATER fame, has produced a disc entitled "4NYC" with all proceeds going to the Red Cross to support folks in the Nyack, NY community who have been directly affected by the 9/11 tragedy...
..."Head On Straight," the first new album from TONIC in three years, will be released on Universal Records on September 24, 2002...
...Drummer Terry Bozzio and bassist Billy Sheehan have joined forces in BOZZIO SHEEHAN with the disc "Nine Short Films" to be released on September 24, 2002...
...Andy West's new project is called "RAMA 1" and features performances by Mike Keneally, Toshi Iseda, and Kit Watkins...
...NIACIN will be touring in the Southwest during the Fall of 2002; stay tuned for tour dates and venues...
...ALEX SKOLNICK is on tour as are BRAND NEW SIN, FU MANCHU, THIS DAY FORWARD and more. Click here for tour dates...
...EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE will play Newby's on Highland in Memphis, Tennessee on Saturday, August 17. The show will be recorded for a live CD that will be released in the next few months...
...SALEM's latest CD, "Collective Demise," will be released on September 15, 2002...
...Ivan Alcala has departed SERBERUS and has joined THROCULT...
...HALFORD guitarist Metal Mike Chlasciak will be doing a series of "Guest Guitarist" columns for Guitar World Magazine...
...Guitarist/vocalist Gary
Moore, who has had a flourishing, 30-year career steeped in rock and blues with such acts as
THIN LIZZY and (the original) SKID
ROW, has formed a new hard-rock power trio called SCARS with
ex-SKUNK ANANSIE bass guitarist Cass Lewis and
PRIMAL SCREAM drummer Darrin Mooney...
...OVERLORDE have cancelled their appearance at the Metal Mindrage Festival in Chincoteague, VA on August 10, 2002 due to an injury suffered by vocalist Bobby Lucas...
...TALISMAN, featuring Jeff Scott Soto and Marcel Jacob (both formerly with YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN), have recently signed to Frontier Records to a multi-album deal for worldwide distribution...
...CKY will release their new album, "Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild," on September 24, 2002 with "Flesh In To Gear" scheduled to be the first single. (By the way, anybody else see the resemblance to MESHUGGAH's "Destroy Erase Improve" album title here?)...
...DEF LEPPARD have just released their tenth studio album appropriately titled "X." The CD opened at the #11 spot on the Billboard Top 200 charts...
...Punk rockers take note: THE VANDALS, TSUNAMI BOMB, AUDIO KARATE, and other Kung Fu Records artists will be touring as a package this Fall...
...California's SPARROWS POINT will be touring on the West Coast in late August – click here for tour dates...
...WESTWORLD, featuring TNT's Tony Harnell, is scheduled to release their latest CD, "Cybernation," on October 28, 2002...
...DEAD LEAVES newest song, "Reach Out," will be featured at upcoming performances...
...The latest dates for the Metal Edge Rock Fest 2002 with DOKKEN, RATT, WARRANT, FIREHOUSE, and LA GUNS are posted here...
...Randy Palmer, formerly the guitarist for PENTAGRAM and BEDEMON, has been critically injured in an auto accident – everyone at Rough Edge wishes him a speedy recovery; more news will be posted as it becomes available...
...DRAGONLORD has recruited ex-NOSTRADAMEUS drummer Jesse Lindskog to man the drum kit...
...EXMORTEM will enter the studio to soon to record the follow-up to their "Berzerker Legions" album...
...SHIVA, featuring former members of MINDROT, has been signed to Century Media Records; SHIVA are recording material for a Spring 2003 release...
...NUCLEAR ASSAULT have reunited and are playing concerts throughout East Coast venues – Screaming Ferret Wreckords will release the band's May 11, 2002 concert performance sometime during Fall 2003...
...STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's Devin Townsend will co-produce the next LAMB OF GOD disc with the band for an April 2003 release...
...VEHEMENCE and DECAPITATED are on tour now...
...CATTLE DECAPITATION, PHOBIA, and MISERY INDEX will be touring together starting in September 2002...
...THE FALLEN's latest CD will be titled "Front Toward Enemy"...
...FATES WARNING's first two CDs, "Night On Brocken" "and "The Spectre Within," will be re-released on September 24, 2002 with four bonus tracks on each CD and new liner notes...
...MALEVOLENT CREATION have finished the recording for their latest studio disc "The Will To Kill"...
...CELESTIAL DAWN will be playing at the Stages Club in Port Colbourne, Ontario on August 17, 2002...
...DORO PESCH will release "Fight" on September 24, 2002 ...
...THRESHOLD's latest CD, "Critical Mass," will be released on September 1, 2002; to hear "Falling Away" from "Critical Mass" click here: http://fallingaway.thresh.net...
...The re-issue of IVORY TOWER's "Heart Of The City" will be in record stores on September 30, 2002...
...EDGE OF TIME is a new hard-rock/neoclassic metal project of ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN drummer Michael Von Knorring and Italian vocalist Chris Heaven. Other featured artists on the Von Knorring/Heaven collaboration include Paul Nelson (guitar), Tommy Denander (guitar), Rowan Robertson (DIO), Paul Shortino (QUIET RIOT/ROUGH CUTT) Tracy G (DRIVEN/DIO) guitar, Rev Jones (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP) bass, Mistheria (keyboards), Max Arminchiardi (guitar), Terry Illous (XYZ), and many more...
...New York City-based SOS are looking for a new permanent drummer to fill the suddenly vacant spot. For more information, e-mail mikesos1@aol.com...
...BRAVE won their respective quarter-final contest at the JAXX Battle of the Bands in West Springfield, Virginia on August 6, 2002 – Rough Edge will post results of their next contest when it becomes available...
...MORGION have parted ways with Relapse Records; MORGION continue to work on their third CD tentatively entitled "Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth"...
...CAGE, the San Diego-based power metal band, are now sponsored by Jagermeister; Jagermeister supports bands like SLAYER, DROWNING POOL, and PANTERA. Hey, Jag! Why don't you sponsor Rough Edge, too!
...SEETHER's video for "Fine Again" is getting airplay on MTV2...
...BOY SETS FIRE's first release for Wind-Up Records will be an EP featuring live recordings and recent studio material...
...FINGER ELEVEN are currently in the studio recording new material for an upcoming release...
...MUST's latest album, "Androgynous Jesus," is selling like hotcakes...
...MACHINE HEAD will be releasing a live CD in the very near future...
...ALICE COOPER will be releasing a special 2-CD version of his "Dragontown" CD on Spitfire Records on September 24, 2002 featuring a never-before-released-in-the-US single entitled "Can’t Sleep, Clowns'll Eat Me" as well as live recordings and re-mixes from the Brutal Planet 2000 Tour and assorted videos. Cooper is also on the road. Tour dates will be posted soon...
...PESSIMIST will be touring in October 2002 and early November 2002; DIVINE RAPTURE will join the band at some East Coast gigs and KAOS RISING will join the band for some gigs in the Midwest – click here for tour dates ...
...ARK are scheduled to return to the studio on August 15, 2002 with producer Tommy Newton to record new material for an upcoming album...
...COSMOSQUAD, the all-instrumental fusion/prog/metal trio, will release a live album titled “Live At The Baked Potato” and will feature 14 tracks from COSMOSQUAD as well as guitarist Jeff Kollman's solo material...
...L.A.-based dirty punk rockers THE ADZ will be touring – click here for West Coast dates ...
...BRAND NEW SIN have been asked to perform at the 2002 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota at the Full Throttle Salon on August 3, 2002...
...Ithaca, NY-based rockers BOILER will be touring New England in late August to support their latest release, "Cow Tipping In C Sharp." Click here for tour dates...
...BLACK SABBATH's "Past Lives" will be released on August 20, 2002 by Sanctuary Records and Divine Recordings features a remastered version of the unofficial "Live At Last" recording and other previously unreleased live material...
...DEREK SHERINIAN has joined BILLY IDOL's touring band...
...NEUROTICA, who were bumped up from the early morning rotation to a prominent spot on the OzzFest second stage, have been 'promoted' again. The band has been moved up to the main stage where they will kick things off every night at about 5pm...
...The supergroup featuring Jim Matheos (FATES WARNING), Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER), and Kevin Moore (CHROMA KEY) has been named OSI (short for Ochestra Of Strategic Influence). OSI's debut disc is due in Fall 2002 on Inside Out Music America and will feature performances by Steve Wilson (PORCUPINE TREE) and Sean Malone (GORDIAN KNOT)...
...ENTOMBED's next album will be a compilation disc of previously recorded cover songs...
...QUIET RIOT will release a DVD in March 2003 to celebrate their twentieth anniversary; an October 2002 concert performance will be recorded for the project...
...Chris Lagerborg, sometime drummer for THE VANDALS and stage technician for SLAYER recently passed away – Rough Edge sends condolences to all of Chris' family, friends, and colleagues...
...Wino, i.e. Scott Weinrich, has disbanded SPIRIT CARAVAN and has joined PLACE OF SKULLS...
...KING'S EVIL are the latest Japanese export to the metal scene – KING’S EVIL play '80s styled thrash...
...EARTHRIDE is a new doom band featuring Dave Sherman (ex-SPIRIT CARAVAN) and Eric Little (ex-INTERNAL VOID) ...
...KITTIE is on the prowl. Click here for tour dates...
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