December 2002 Archive
...Universal Records has updated their 'hard knocks' website – visit http://www.schoolofhardrocks.net/ to see what they're talking about...
...Guitarist Paul Nelson has contributed a track to the second JASON BECKER tribute album...
...The Hungarian progressive metal band WITHOUT FACE will be touring throughout Europe in 2003 – click here for tour dates...
...Also on the road are NORMA-JEAN, SALIVA and BRAND NEW SIN / KITTIE / BIOHAZARD. Click here for more...
KOCP's "The Rock Revolution" will celebrate their first anniversary show on Saturday, December 28th, beginning at 10:00 PM PST. Visit http://www.therockrevolution.com for more information...
...Cecilie "Zilla" Eidskrem is the full-time keyboardist in ASHES TO ASHES...
...CESSATION OF LIFE will be recorded by LA Metal TV at a January 18, 2003 show in Burbank, CA for a future LA Metal TV broadcast...
...BYFIST invite you to visit their new website at http://byfist1.tripod.com...
...Blue Worm Records artists CASANATRA are on tour. Click here for dates...
... BURNING RAIN's Doug Aldrich has been added to the touring version of Whitesnake for the 2003 tour...
...BLOODSAK will be playing a special show at The Joint in Los Angeles, CA on Friday December 27, 2002...
...SEVEN WISHES are currently writing new material - a sample of a new song titled "Follow The Stars" will be made available on-line shortly...
...GLASSEATER will embark on a nationwide tour with The Beautiful Mistake - click here for confirmed dates...
...Toronto-based metallers TRIPCHORD will be featured in the February 17, 2003 broadcast of the Metal Mondays radio show at http://www.artistfirst.com...
...MACHINE HEAD have titled their new live album "Hellalive" with the help of fans across the globe...
...DEAD LEAVES tour dates are confirmed through late February 2003. Click here for more information...
...Industrial musical deconstructionists SHOCKSHOW invite you to hear their music at http://artists2.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/ShockShow/...
...CHROME SHIFT will release their next album on DVS Records on February 24, 2003 in Europe...
...Punkers BRAZIL are on tour – click here for confirmed dates...
The legendary SLAM ALICE have re-formed (again) and will play at the Red Cove in Ventura on New Year's Eve...
Punk rock pioneer Joe Strummer died at the age of 50 at his home on December 22, 2002...
...A new song from Portugese metallers CIBORIUM will be included on an upcoming compilation CD to be released by North Poem Records...
...MY SIXTH SHADOW, EVENFALL, and DARKWELL will tour together during the month of February 2003 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands...
...BLINDMAN invites you to download their latest song, "Paralyzing Day," at http://www.blindman.rocks.it/...
...Norwegian melodic rockers ON THE RISE will release their self-titled debut on February 24, 2003 on Frontiers Records...
...DOG FASHION DISCO's latest freakshow, entitled "Committed To A Bright Future," is due in April 2003...
... OHGR's new album is due sometime in 2003 ...
...SOLACE will release their second full-length, simply titled "13," on MeteorCity Records on January 27, 2003 - Wino guests on vocals and guitar on one track...
...GOOD CHARLOTTE's latest disc, "The Young And The Hopeless," has gone platinum...
...Chicago-based metal acts HEADLOK and PATH will be doing a two-week Florida tour from March 28, 2003 to April 10, 2003 - dates and venues will be announced soon...
...AUDIOSLAVE's self-titled debut has gone gold after only three weeks...
...Cleveland-based GATLIN will be entering the studio in January 2003 to record material and has garnered interest from a number of major labels...
...MUDVAYNE are near ubiquitous in the press with cover features in Revolver, Guitar World, Modern Drummer, and Bass Player...
...FU MANCHU have signed with SPV Records for the European release of their double live CD, "Go For It" ...
...KORN's "Untouchables" has sold more than 2.5 million copies since its release last Spring...
...Vinny Records, based in Spain, will release EDEN LOST's debut in the near future...
...CHEVELLE's "Wonder What’s Next" has gone gold after nine weeks of sales...
...FUEL are in the studio recording the follow-up to "Something Like Human"...
...VENDETTA RED's major label debut, "Between The Never And The Now," is tentatively scheduled to be released on June 24, 2003...
...GIANT will release their first official live album, "Live & Acoustic - Official Bootleg," on Frontiers Records on February 24, 2003...
...RAGING SPEEDHORN will support MINISTRY on their upcoming European tour...
...Guitarist CARLOS CREATOR has contributed a track to the second tribute album to JASON BECKER...
...The classic movie "This Is Spinal Tap" has been selected to be preserved by the National Film Registry. The registry is designed to recognize films for their contributions to American film and cultural history and the use of satire and the documentary format in the Rob Reiner film has been the basis for a number of films since its release in 1984...
...NUCLEAR ASSAULT have begun writing material for a 2003 release and the band is going on tour as well. Click here for tour dates ...
...Scott Dalhover, formerly of DANGEROUS TOYS, has a new band called MONSTER RODD and is working on new material and securing a label deal...
...PISSING RAZORS' new studio album is due in April 2003...
...Paramount Pictures has started principal photography for an upcoming film titled THE SCHOOL OF ROCK starring Jack Black (TENACIOUS D). Black plays a hell-raising guitarist with delusions of grandeur who gets kicked out of his band. Desperate for work, he impersonates a substitute teacher and turns a class of fifth grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock and rollers. Black then prepares his students for a Battle of the Bands – we'll post more information as it becomes available...
...AXEL RUDI PELL will release a double-CD of live material titled "Knights Live" on February 4, 2003 on SPV Records...
...Noise Records and a number of European and
Scandinavian metal magazines have combined forces to find three bands with the mettle and music to become part of the next generation of metal heavy weights – check out these magazines for more
information:
Hammer (Germany)
Sweden Rock Magazine (Sweden)
Scream Magazine (Norway)
Soundi Magazine (Finland)
Hard Rock /Guitar&Bass (France)
Metal Hammer (Spain)
Metal Hammer (Italy)
Metalized (Denmark)
...MAZE OF TORMENT have signed with Hellspawn Records – the band's latest disc, "The Unmarked Graves," should be out soon...
...Black Mark Records will re-issue most of BATHORY's back catalog...
...NUCLEAR ASSAULT have begun writing new songs for a new album that will likely see the light of day in late 2003 or early 2004...
...GODSMACK have tentatively set April 8, 2003 as the release date for their latest effort, "Faceless"...
...DARKSEED have signed with Massacre Records...
...BLAZE and drummer Jeff Singer have amicably parted ways...
...Contrary to previous reports here and elsewhere JOHN SYKES has apparently not signed a record deal with Z Records...
...BITCH have reunited...
...Patrick Lachman has left HALFORD to pursue his band DIESEL MACHINE full time; producer/song-writer ROY Z will fill in on second guitar in HALFORD for the band's 2003 world tour...
...Rumors abound that SUM 41 have been asked to open up a number of shows for IRON MAIDEN...
...SKYCLAD have titled their next CD "A Semblance Of Normality"...
...PAIN will record an album of cover songs...
...Three-fifths of the most celebrated EUROPE lineup - guitarist John Norum, bassist John Levén, and drummer Ian Haugland - reunited on stage at the Hard Rock Café in Stockholm, Sweden - Dec 13, 2002 to perform the EUROPE classic "Rock The Night" and a version of LED ZEPPELIN's "Rock And Roll"; the gig, which took place as part of the Christmas show of local radio station Rockklassiker 106.7, also featured an appearance by LION'S SHARE guitarist Lars Chriss, who also played with Haugland during the regular set before Norum and Levén joined the duo for the explosive finale. Haugland handled the lead vocal duties for the EUROPE track...
...NON-DIVINE needs your help to play at the Waldrock festival. Just vote NON-DIVINE at http://waldrock.no-ip.org/bandpoll/list.php3...
...Tour dates for BANTAM, KANSAS/STYX/JOHN WAITE, OPETH / LACUNA COIL / PARADISE LOST / TAPPING THE VEIN, BLUEBIRD and DOG FASHION DISCO can all be found by clicking here...
...Drummer Mike Rix, formerly of SEASON OF FEAR and NOTHING SACRED, has joined M FRANCIS FESTER behind the drumkit. For more information, check out http://www.musicbuilder.com/M_Francis_Fester/default.asp...
...PUSH CULT just played a rousing gig at the Hard Rock Café in Atlanta – look for PUSH CULT to play another big gig on New Year’s Eve – we’ll post more information as it becomes available...
...Noise Records will release a double-CD of RUNNING WILD's best material of which one CD will contain remixed/rerecorded versions of the band’s best known songs and the second CD will contain video clips of the band and other assorted clips of the band backstage and in the studio - Rough Edge will post more information as it becomes available...
... Canadian metal act ANONYMUS will be performing a live-to-air concert broadcast on CKMS' metal radio show "Space In Your Face" on Thursday, December 12, 2002 from 10pm - Midnight Eastern Time (originating from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario on 100.3 FM). The performance will also be broadcast over the Internet. For more information on how to tune into the webcast (and to check out the radio show each week), check out http://listen.to/siyf or http://www.angelfire.com/on/siyf...
...Matador Records has signed DEAD MEADOW to their roster...
...HED(PE) will release their third disc, "Blackout," on March 4, 2003...
...O.N.'s latest disc, "Adventures In Boredom," will be released in January 2003 on Doc Hollywood Records...
... DRAGPIPE's single, "Simple Minded," from their latest album "Music For The Last Day Of Your Life" is all over internet radio...
...Neal Morse has departed SPOCK'S BEARD; Morse will continue in the music business with other projects and the rest of SPOCK'S BEARD will continue recording and touring under the SPOCK'S BEARD moniker...
...AC/DC have signed a distribution deal with Epic/Sony – expect most of AC/DC's material to reissued – we'll post more information as it becomes available...
...John Sykes, formerly of TYGERS OF PAN TANG, THIN LIZZY, WHITESNAKE and BLUE MURDER, has signed a record deal with Z Records – the deal will allow three of Sykes' Japan-only releases worldwide...
...The remainder of the GUNS N ROSES tour has been cancelled – any date after December 8, 2002 is affected...
...GREEN, featuring ex-members of AIRSPEED, DIAFRAMMA and TIME ESCAPE, will release their latest disc, "Life," in Spring 2003 on Frontiers Records – "Life" will display a host of influences including RUSH, THE WHO, and PINK FLOYD...
...Melodic metalcore mavens HOPESFALL are touring in December 2002 – click here for dates...
...THE EXPLOITED's new studio album is due in March 2003...
...GORDIAN KNOT's Sean Malone has tapped onetime CYNIC bandmate and guitarist Jason Gobel and ex-KING CRIMSON drummer Bill Bruford as his core for the next GORDIAN KNOT disc while luminaries such as Steve Hackett on guitar (ex-GENESIS), Jim Matheos on guitar (FATES WARNING), and fellow CYNIC guitarist Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinert round out the studio musicians – "Emergent" is GORDIAN KNOT's sophomore release and it is due in stores soon...
...GATLIN, a melodic rock act from Cleveland, Ohio, is garnering a big buzz from the music industry and selling out many of their live shows...
...Jennifer Finch's newest band is called SHOCKER (or THE SHOCKER – nobody knows for sure). Recently the band took L.A. by storm and Rough Edge will post more information when it becomes available...
...GOLDEN BATS will soon be embarking on a tour of the United States in support of their soon-to-be-released CD – Rough Edge will post more information when it becomes available...
...Sweden Rock Records, a new label, has released its first four disc in the form of STARFISH's "Affected By Time," SLOW TRAIN's "Song Of The Day," TWINBALL's "Remnants Of A Broken Soul," and LOCOMOTIVE BREATH's "Heavy Machinery"...
...SIXTY WATT SHAMAN has just been named as the direct support for the impending East Coast CLUTCH mini-tour - click here for tour dates...
...BLACK LABEL SOCIETY has a new album titled "The Blessed Hellride" due sometime in early 2003. A DVD entitled "Boozed, Bruised & Broken Boned" is on track for a March 2003 release...
... OVERKILL's DVD "Wrecking Everything: An Evening In Asbury Park" is in stores now (a review is coming soon) and the band's as-yet-untitled new album is due in early 2003...
...DIO is filming a live DVD on December 13, 2002 in New York City's Roseland Ballroom for an April 2003 release...
...PRO-PAIN's new studio album is due to arrive in stores in March 2003...
...TESTAMENT is on the road, as are TRIBE OF JUDAH and DOG FASHION DISCO. Click here for tour dates...
...Italian goth-metallers MY SIXTH SHADOW will tour the United Kingdom in May 2003; if you or your band would like to participate in the tour or on select dates send an e-mail to info@urbansound.it for more information...
...Onlinegigs.com invites independent bands and agents to sign-up for a quarterly newsletter that contains tips and advice on booking live music performances. Onlinegigs.com is the only resource to provide independent bands and agents with both a nationwide listing of venues, nightclubs and colleges as well as the essential contact management tools necessary to create lifelong relationships with those contacts. Onlinegigs.com is a serious tool for either part-time or full-time musicians looking to take control of their careers. Click this link http://www.onlinegigs.com to learn more...
...CRUSH 40, featuring ex-HARDLINE vocalist Johnny Gioelli, guitarist Jun Senue, ex-LOUDNESS bassist Naoto Shibata, and ANTHEM drummer Hirotsugu Homma will release their self-titled debut in Europe on February 24, 2003; this album was released in Japan as "Thrill Of The Feel" under the moniker SONS OF ANGELS, but the CRUSH 40 version will contain bonus tracks and extra material used as backing songs in various video games...
...The Tour Bus, a nationally syndicated rock radio show is re-broadcast on-line every Monday and Wednesday night at 9 p.m. EST – for more information visit http://www.thetourbus.com...
...SLAVES ON DOPE have signed to MCA Records imprint Bieler Brothers Records; SLAVES ON DOPE are working on a new disc under the watchful eye of EARSHOT producer Jason Slater...
...Extreme black metal artists DEMON CHILD have released their latest CD, "Shadow Cult," on Sound Riot Records - to hear samples visit http://www.demonchild666.cjb.net/...
... SLIPKNOT's DVD, "Disasterpieces," is now available...
...RED TAPE has signed to Roadrunner Records...
...KILLSWITCH ENGAGE will be playing the Irving Plaza in New York City on December 9, 2002 for The Syndicate's 3rd Annual Metal X-Mas Ball along with SHADOWS FALL, UNDEROATH, MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD, and NORA ...
...RHAPSODY guitarist Luca Turilli's latest solo project is the epic "Prophet Of The Last Eclipse" and is available on Limb Music Products now...
...Tour dates for NORMA JEAN, LIVING SACRIFICE, HOPESFALL/AVENGED SEVENFOLD/ATREYU, and MELLOWDRONE can be found here...
...Guitarist JOE SIMS now has his own site on mp3.com featuring his work with his previous bands (AXEMASTER and REIGN) at http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/473/joe_sims.html; check out his current band DREAM OR NIGHTMARE here http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/440/dream_or_nightmare.html...
...FOREST STREAM's latest album will be entitled "Tears Of Mortal Solitude" and will be hitting the records shops on January 27, 2003...
...Terror Productions is up and running and is looking for new talent to manage and promote - check out their website at http://www.terrorproduction.com...
....To see/send the new SYMPHONY X ecard visit http://www.insideoutmusic.com/index-ecard-symx.htm...
...UNWRITTEN LAW have signed a multi-album deal with Atlantic Record's Lava Records; the band's latest disc, "Music In High Places," will be released on January 21, 2003...
...NASHVILLE PUSSY have invited New York City rockers BANTAM to play a New Year;s Eve gig at The Whiskey-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles...
...HALFORD guitarist Metal Mike Chlasciak has announced the formation of PAIN MUSEUM - the debut album is expected in Spring 2003...
...Punkers/hardcore rockers GRADE 8 will hit the road in support of their debut album – click here for tour dates...
...MERENDINE ATOMICHE have finished recording their latest CD, "Walk Across Fire," - a release date will be set once the artwork and pressings are complete...
... CAGE has been selected as one of the 12 finalists who are competing to be the special guests at the Rock 105.3 FM Rock Stole Christmas show at the Cox Arena on Sunday, December 8, 2002 in San Diego, California, USA. The show will feature DISTURBED, PAPA ROACH, TAPROOT and the winning local band as special guests...
...SEVEN WITCHES are in the process of recording a new album to be released sometime during Spring 2003...
...TWISTED SISTER have been added to the Sweden Rock Festival to be held during June 6 - 8, 2003 along with BLIND GUARDIAN, KROKUS, BUDGIE, KAMELOT, SONATA ARTICA and others...
...Demented porno grinders RUPTURE CHRIST have released their debut album, "Molesting The Entrails Of The Disemboweled," on Sound Riot Records - fans of LIVIDITY and ANOXIA should take note...
...DOG FASHION DISCO and WITHOUT FACE have announced new tour dates. Click here to check 'em out...
...BLOODSAK will be playing The Joint in Los Angeles, CA on December 11, 2002...
...UNRULY CHILD's "UC III" will be released on January 27, 2003...
...SATANIC SLAUGHTER's "Banished To The Underworld" has been released; the band will be playing festivals during Summer 2003 - Rough Edge will post more information when it becomes available...
...THY MAJESTY will be supporting
VISION DIVINE at these venues:
December 19, 2002 @ Thunder Road in Codevilla, Italy
December 20, 2002 @ New Age in Treviso, Italy
December 22, 2002 @ Rolling Stone in Milano, Italy...
...URBAN TALE's "Signs Of Times" will be released on January 27, 2003...
...MYSTERELL, the newest project featuring Torben from PANGEA fame, will release a CD titled "Sensational" in late Spring 2003 or early Summer 2003...
...CONTAGIOUS have begun writing material for their next full-length...
...GRADE 8's self-titled debut will be released by Lava Records on February 11, 2003...
...OUTSPOKEN's "Bitter Shovel" will be released on February 18, 2003...
...REACH's newest album, as yet untitled, will be released on April 29, 2003...
...LEIF JOHANSSON, ex-PHENOMENA, will release his latest solo CD "Life" in 2003 on Z Records...
...SHIVA's self-titled debut CD will be released on Z Records on December 9, 2002...
...NAPALM DEATH is on the road with THE GREAT DECEIVER. Click here for tour dates...
...AC/DC have begun writing tunes for the follow-up CD to 2000's "Stiff Upper Lip" with plans to enter to the studio in early 2003 with a new CD penciled in for a March 2003 release...
...ARTENSION's sixth studio album, "New Discovery," will be released on January 27, 2003 in Europe - no date has been set for a North American release...
...The Universal Music Group has over forty-three thousand songs available for download at 99 cents per track or $9.99 per album - all tracks may be transferred to portable devices. Check your favorite online store for titles and more information...
...Drive-Thru Records will release a compilation DVD on December 17, 2002; the DVD will feature many of the label's bands including FINCH, NEW FOUND GLORY, FENIX TX, and SOMETHING CORPORATE...
...NINEDENINE have announced more England tour dates. Click here to find 'em...
...NEUROTICA have split up...
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