Archive for July, 2010

More details on KAMELOT’s upcoming album

Posted by tekhammer at 29 July 2010

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Kamelot‘s new album Poetry For The Poisoned, which is set now for release on Sep 10 in Europe and North America on Sep 14, has had a few more details announced.

The tracklist is:

  1. The Great Pandemonium
  2. If Tomorrow Came
  3. Dear Editor
  4. The Zodiac
  5. Hunter’s Season
  6. House On A Hill
  7. Necropolis
  8. My Train Of Thoughts
  9. Seal Of Woven Years
  10. Poetry For The Poisoned – PT I Incubus
  11. Poetry For The Poisoned - PT II So Long
  12. Poetry For The Poisoned -PT III All Is Over
  13. Poetry For The Poisoned -PT IV Dissection
  14. Once Upon A Time

Poetry For The Poisoned will feature guest appearances by Simone Simons of Epica, Gus G. of Firewind and Ozzy Osbourne, Björn “Speed” Strid of Soilwork, and Jon Olivia of Savatage.

The bonus DVD on the digipak will include interviews with all the band members, a video for The Great Pandemonium, background images (I’m guessing for your computer), and exclusive video footage from their Norway Rock Festival 2010 appearance. They also mention a bonus uncut version of House on a Hill, but whether that’s on the DVD or as a bonus on the CD isn’t clear. (more…)

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JOEY BELLADONNA of ANTHRAX interviewed

Posted by tekhammer at 29 July 2010

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The latest episode of the Radioactive Metal podcast has an interview with Anthrax‘s Joey Belladonna.

“This episode of RADIOACTIVE METAL Originally aired on PURE ROCK RADIO July 15th, 2010. The show is smack dab in the middle of CANADIAN METAL MONTH but when a member of “THE BIG FOUR” calls, ya gotta accept the charges. For this episode “we interrupt our regular scheduled broadcast” to bring you an interview with returning ANTHRAX vocalist JOEY BELLADONNA. We discuss with “The Man” all that’s going on in the ‘Thrax camp and his solo ventures. Naturally this episode morphed into a “spotlight” episode and we crank some awesome ‘Thrax trax. Horns Up!!!“

Radioactive Metal interview with Joey Belladonna


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How far a giant can fall…

Posted by tekhammer at 26 July 2010

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Marty Friedman, former guitarist for Megadeth, has released a video from his forthcoming album. The song is Bad D.N.A. and is the title track of the CD. It’s due to be released in Japan on August 25.

This is just bad. Clearly it’s only aimed at the Japanometal market. I seriously don’t know what to make of this.

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DEE SNIDER’s been a busy man

Posted by tekhammer at 26 July 2010

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First off, Dee has an upcoming TV series called Growing Up Twisted — a reality show because we haven’t had enough of those *cough* — and most likely, as a not very subtle way of promoting it, he made an appearance on America’s Got Talent, joining in as a guest singer singing I Wanna Rock.

I don’t doubt that most of the audience had no idea who he was. It’s certainly a big step from defending heavy metal against the lunatics of the PMRC in the ’80s to being on a TV show promoting music for their nation’s children.

The TV series, Growing Up Twisted, is a 7 episode show which starts airing on July 27 in the States. And apparently Dee will be the mellow one. I’m a huge Dee Snider fan, so if this show hits our shores on DVD, then I’ll pick up a copy. Watching something in weekly installments is so 20th century.

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TRISTANIA release MP3 track from forthcoming album RUBICON

Posted by tekhammer at 26 July 2010

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Goth metallers, Tristania, have released an MP3 track of Way of the Rat, one of the songs from their forthcoming album Rubicon.

Rubicon is set for release on:

  • August 25 (Spain)
  • August 27 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Italy, Sweden)
  • August 30 (Rest of Europe)
  • August 31 (USA/Canada)

The track listing is:

  1. Year Of The Rat
  2. Protection
  3. Patriot Games
  4. The Passing
  5. Exile
  6. Sirens
  7. Vulture
  8. Amnesia
  9. Magical Fix
  10. Illumination

There is a limited edition Digipak available from Napalm Records which will include a bonus track, and the first 200 orders receive an exclusive poster.

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Interview with GRAND MAGUS

Posted by tekhammer at 22 July 2010

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I’ve been loving Grand Magus‘ new album Hammer of the North, and I will review it sometime soon. But in the meantime, here’s an interview with them. Audio quality is a bit shit and the cameraman needs to sit the fuck down, but good interview nonetheless:

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Metal Hammer releasing IRON MAIDEN’s first ever 3D cover

Posted by tekhammer at 22 July 2010

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Now this is teh awesome. Next month’s issue of Metal Hammer has a 3D cover with Iron Maiden‘s Final Frontier cover art. In addition to that it comes with a Final Frontier mousepad. Hits shelves on July 28. Don’t know if that’s worldwide or just the UK. We usually get them a month or so behind here in New Zealand.

More blah blah on their announcement, but what you really want to see is the cover. Fuck yeah:

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HYDROGYN releasing limited edition CD for preorder

Posted by tekhammer at 22 July 2010

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Hydrogyn, a band that includes James Lomenzo as bassist — who has worked with Megadeth and Zakk Wylde in the past — and Jeff Young — lead guitarist on Megadeth‘s So Far, So Good, So What? — is doing something a little different.

First off, they’re releasing a 1000 copy limited edition of their forthcoming album Judgement. It’s set to ship in October, at the same time as the regular release, but for pre-ordering the first 1000 will get some unannounced bonuses.

To top that off, in their new weekly video blog, they mention a forthcoming USB stick release. I’m not sure how different it will be, but it’s an interesting idea. I’ve thought for a while that we’re long overdue for a new format. Maybe USB sticks won’t be it, but stepping out of the norm is a good move in my opinion.

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Earache Records release free Summer 2010 MP3 sampler

Posted by tekhammer at 20 July 2010

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EDIT: Sod that. Link deleted. Amazon only let people in the US download MP3 files, and on top of that you have to download a custom program. Why the hell should people download a custom downloader so they can download files?

Un-fucking-cool Amazon.

Earache Records have released a free sampler of their music. It’s an album in MP3 format and is available from Amazon.

The tracklist is:

  1. And Hell Followed With – Venomspitter
  2. Evile – Infected Nation
  3. Oceano – District Of Misery
  4. White Wizzard – Over The Top
  5. Bonded By Blood – Prototype: Death Machine
  6. Cauldron – Chained Up In Chains
  7. Order Of Ennead – The Concept Of Our Extinction
  8. Gama Bomb – Slam Anthem
  9. Wormrot – Born Stupid
  10. Wormrot – Indonesia
  11. Annotations Of An Autopsy – Human Dust
  12. Blood Red Throne – The Light, The Hate
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NZ Metallica fan has ripped undies

Posted by tekhammer at 19 July 2010

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Jamie Woods, the guy who petitioned to get Metallica down to Christchurch, missed out on a ticket for himself. I have to admit that the irony made me laugh my arse off (well, not completely off because I have plenty spare). But I can say that it would have ripped my undies had I been in his position.

What did astound me is that Gaytallica fans sold the first show out in 5 minutes, and the second in 28 minutes.

I won’t feel any sorrow for Jamie, though, until he puts his thumb away when throwing the horns.

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