METAL NEWS
On this session, you'll find the latest news of the
World of Heavy Metal. If you want to know the latest
news about your favorite
band, e-mail me at moonchild@rock-br.com.br
and I'll try to inform you.
SEPTEMBER
- SLAYER has announced that their new album will
be released in february. The album title is no defined yet.
-MEGADETH'S new album ( the 9th in their career
) is a compilation of their greatest hits. The album will feature the classics
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due , In My Darkest Hour , Symphony of Destruction
and Peace Sells but Who's Buying, plus two new songs, called Dread And
The Fugitive Mind and Kill The King. The album will be released on
the US on October 23th
-Europe's promising band SONATA ARCTICA will
release on October 23th the EP Sucessor, that will include covers for
Still Loving you ( Scorpions) and I Want Out (Helloween)
-SKID ROW'S drummer Charlie Mills is officialy
out of the band. Phil Verone (ex - Saigon Kick) will take his place on the drums.
- DIMMU BORGIR has announced that the guitar
player Astennu has left the band. The new guitarrist is Galder ( ex - Old Man's
Child). The band, already with Galder is on Gottemburg recording their new album.
- The singer John Lawton is planning a reunion of his
old and classic band URIAH HEEP. The idea came over in a fan convention
in London. Lawton is releasing a solo album and a live album with the band Gunhill.
- Was released in september If I Could Fly, HELLOWEEN'S
new single, that will be included in their new album The Dark Ride. The
album will be released in october 30th, and will be produced by Roy Z, Bruce
Dickinson's and Tribe of Gypsies guitar player.
- PRIMAL FEAR started the recording sessions
of their new album on July 19th. The album wil lbe called Nuclear Fire,
and will be released in January 15th.
- IN FLAMES has just ended a tour with Earth
crisis. The band has putted on the Internet a video of their show on the Botlle
Neck, in the US, ocurred on August 10th. The adress
is www.digitalclubnetwork.com . The
show is on the files section.
- Will be released on September the new album of the
band MORBID ANGEL, called Gataways to Annihilation.
- RHAPSODY will also release a new album. It
will be on October and the album is called Dawn of Victory.
- News on THEATRE OF TRAGEDY: the band will release
on October 1st the new album called Musique and also an EP titled
Introspective on the begginig of the next year. During the recordings of
the new album, guitar player Tommy Olsson and bassist Erik Saltro announced
that they had left the band.