OVERKILL ANNOUNCES “KILLFEST 2,” NEW ALBUM COMING SOON

Posted in All Metal, Artist Watch, News on October 27, 2011 by Randy

(New York, NY) — OVERKILL have announced a brand new batch of dates aptly dubbed “KILLFEST 2.” Supporting will be Belphegor, Aborted, Blackguard, System Divide and Diamond Plate.

The band is currently in the studio gearing up for their next un-titled release due out next year with a one off performance planned on the “70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise.”

OVERKILL released “IRONBOUND” in 2010 which charted at 168 on the Billboard Top 200, the bands fastest selling record in 16 years. A video was also filmed a video for “Bring Me The Night” in Brooklyn, NY with director Kevin Custer (HATEBREED, TESTAMENT, SUFFOCATION).

Overkill Official Website

4/20 – Trocadero Theater – Philadelphia PA
4/22 – Lost Horizon – Syracuse NY
4/23 – Screamin WIllie’s – Columbus OH
4/24 – Blondie’s – Detroit MI
4/25 – Bottom Lounge – Chicago IL
4/26 – Beaumont Club – Kansas City MO
4/27 – Bluebird Theater – Denver CO
4/28 – The Complex – Salt Lake City UT
4/30 – El Corazon – Seattle WA
5/1 – Hawthorne Theater – Portland OR
5/2 – The Grand Ballroom – San Francisco CA
5/3 – Club Nokia – Los Angeles CA
5/5 – Emo’s East – Austin TX
5/6 – Trees – Dallas TX
5/8 – The Club at Firestone – Orlando FL
5/9 – Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale FL
5/10 – The Masquerade – Atlanta GA
5/11 – Jaxx Nightclub – West Springfield VA
5/12 – Best Buy Theater – New York, NY

Lou Reed & Metallica: Lulu Preview

Posted in All Metal, Artist Watch, News with tags , , , , on October 26, 2011 by Randy

Lulu is a musical collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica.

It is inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind’s plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box, which tell the story of a young abused dancer’s life and relationships, and are now collectively known as the Lulu plays. Since their publication in the early 1900s, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film (Pandora’s Box, 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavors. The plays challenged the sexual and moral standards of their day and have remained highly controversial. Originally the lyrics and musical landscape for Lulu were sketched out by Lou for a theatrical production in Berlin. After Lou performed with Metallica at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York in 2009 they all knew they wanted to make more music together. The Lulu project began in May 2011 at HQ studios in Northern California, with Lou’s lyrics as the starting point.

http://www.loureedmetallica.com/

 

ROADRUNNER TO RELEASE TYPE O NEGATIVE’S LABEL CATALOG AS VINYL BOX SET :::: IT WILL BE SOLD EXCLUSIVELY AT INDEPENDENT RETAIL OUTLETS ON BLACK FRIDAY

Posted in News, Releases with tags , , , on October 25, 2011 by Randy

New York, NY: What better way to celebrate Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the calendar year, with the black-humored, doom ‘n’ gloom goth of Type O Negative? Fans can inject a little fun into the drudgery that is holiday shopping, courtesy of Type O!

Roadrunner Records will release a special vinyl box set exclusively via independent retailers on Black Friday, which lands on November 25th this year. Go here for more information on who is selling this incredibly limited piece.

As the first band to achieve platinum status on the Roadrunner Records roster, Type O Negative didn’t rewrite the rules. They simply tore the rule book up, burned what was left of it and did whatever the hell they wanted with the smoldering ash. The result was nothing short of brilliant, as they combined dirge-like doom with head down, gothy grooves, all the while retaining the sort of signature melody that made their songs utterly memorable, infesting your brain like a virus.

Of the box set, Type O’s Johnny Kelly said, “This looks great but we’re disappointed that Roadrunner couldn’t get it together to do the scratch ‘n’ sniff cover we wanted for The Origin of the Feces.”

The vinyl box includes all Roadrunner released Type O Negative material contained within one collector’s box. Each album will be issued on double green vinyl, with the album art recreated, including the controversial, rarely seen original cover of The Origin of the Feces. Type O fans know all about that cover and the anatomy which it features.

Each album will also have new, branded liner notes documenting the genesis and completion of each album.

An exclusive sticker sheet with six mini bumper stickers will also be included in this “must own” set for Type O Negative diehards. It’s an instant collector’s item.

This set includes the following releases:

Slow, Deep and Hard
The Origin of the Feces
Bloody Kisses

October Rust

World Coming Down

Life Is Killing Me

THE DEVIL’S BLOOD: Metal Blade Records To Release Band’s New Full-Length To North American Fans This January

Posted in All Metal, News with tags , , , on October 25, 2011 by Randy
Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce its union with THE DEVIL’S BLOOD, a hard rock band inspired by vintage metal and underground psychedelic rock of the days of yore. Metal Blade will be releasing the band’s upcoming full-length album, The Thousandfold Epicentre, in North America on January 17, 2012. The Thousandfold Epicentre features 11 tracks produced with the help of Pieter Kloos at Void Studios (Eindhoven, The Netherlands).

Says founder and band leader SL: “We are very pleased to be able to announce our partnership with a partner so deeply rooted in tradition and at the same time willing and able to extend their borders to include THE DEVIL’S BLOOD. This industrious quality makes us feel we have chosen a partner who shall not sit idly by as their seeds are growing, but instead shall water the orchard with love and passion so the fruits may become sweet as damnation’s wine. Our cult is growing, growing fast, and with the addition of Metal Blade to our family we shall endeavor to make the whole world dream the dreams of Death.”

Adds Metal Blade Records head Brian Slagel: THE DEVIL’S BLOOD has a sound that is quite unique in today’s scene. Reminiscent of the classic metal and psychedelic rock bands of the ’60s and ’70s, THE DEVIL’S BLOOD has created a dark and haunting world made up of intriguing music, strong vocals and musicianship, reflective artwork, and a theatrical stage show that is not to be missed. We are extremely excited to be working with THE DEVIL’S BLOOD and look forward to releasing their upcoming full-length The Thousandfold Epicentre in North America this January.”

SL comments further on the upcoming release: “The Thousandfold Epicentre has become a beautiful and horrible child, a child that is about to be offered up unto the Bull headed God. Within the flames of its creation we have heated our irons for the branding of the world. Within its words and music lies the entrance to the path towards the crossroads, towards the unending singularity and beyond. Our children for Moloch! Hail Satan!”

Check out an art teaser clip for the song “Within the Charnel House of Love” as well as a stream of “She” at THIS LOCATION

The Thousandfold Epicentre 
Track Listing:

01. Unending Singularity
02. On the Wings of Gloria
03. Die the Death
04. Within the Charnel House of Love
05. Cruel Lover
06. She
07. The Thousandfold Epicentre
08. Fire Burning
09. Everlasting Saturnalia
10. The Madness of Serpents
11. Feverdance

http://www.thedevilsblood.com
http://www.facebook.com/thedevilsblood