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Dec 2000

(12/20) That's it for this year, I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow till Jan 4th, when I'll reveal the Top 10 of 2000, a half dozen new album reviews, and get you all sorts of other news. Hope you've had a good year, and get real drunk at the new years party of your choosing.

(12/20) Slipknot will be entering studios on January 17th (my birthday, what luck) with producer Ross Robinson.

(12/16) The report saying that Zakk, Tommy Lee and Geezer Butler was going to be the lineup on Ozzy's new album has been denied by Ozzy.

(12/16) Obscenity is working on material for a new album.

(12/16) Napalm Death news, the band's on a european tour with Nasum, and looks like Mitch somehow got himself a broken leg. But he's still performing.

(12/16) Krisiun is back in brazil writing music for a new full length album.

(12/16) Malamor's bass player has left, the band is looking for a new one. And they finally have some mp3s available on their site.

(12/16) Vote for your favorite albums of the year 2000.

(12/13) Rumor has it the new Gorguts will be called "From Wisdom To Hate", and will be released March 6th 2001.

(12/11) The Dream Theater DVD will be called "METROPOLIS 2000: Scenes From New York", and will contain metropolis 2 in it's entirety. The DVD will also contain Audio Commentary throughout "Scenes From A Memory" by all five members of the band, over one hour of bonus live material, Behind The Scenes Documentary, and a photo gallery.

(12/07) Coal Chamber has finished recording 13 demos for their new album, actual recording starts sometime early next year. Apparently the new material is heavier then their last album (which would be good).

(12/07) Slipknot has written a bunch of new material for their new album. Recording date, who knows.

(12/07) Arch Enemy is now in the studios working on their new album. For more info, go here.

(12/07) Mixing on the new Sepultura album will begin this coming tuesday, and is likely to continue till christmas.

(12/07) The new Altar album will be called "Red Harvest".

(12/07) The live Death album will now be released June 18th 2001 on Century Media Records.

(12/07) The new Fear Factory album has finished getting mixed, 10 tracks are ready for the album, and an extra 4 bonus tracks are finished for later release. Mastering will happen January.

(12/04) Korrodead will release their new album on the first of next year, named "Acts Beyond the Pale"

(12/03) Hammerheart Records is now the new label for Control Denied, who have titled their new album "When Machine and Man Collide". It's being worked on right now at Morrisound. Other rumors include that it may be released in May (probably still too early to tell), and that it will be a double CD set.

(12/03) Disgorge is also finished their tour, and now working on tracks for the new album. In some sad news, their amazing vocalist Matti Way has left the band and is doing vocals now for Incestuous. Replacement for him is A.J. from Deprecated, whose voice it has been claimed is almost identical to Matti's, I really hope that's true.

(12/03) Deeds Of Flesh just finished their tour, and is now working on material for a new album in spring 2001.

(11/26) Roadrunner will be releasing an Obituary "Best of" in the near future, which will include two never before heard tracks.

(11/26) Info on the new Sepultura, the cd is currently titled "Nations", and will feature on one track those crazy Cello players Apocalyptica.

(11/26) The "Contaminated 3.0" cd from Relapse has been pushed back till Jan 23rd 2001.

(11/26) Ozzy's new album is set for release March 13th 2001.

(11/26) Vader's new "Reign Forever World" EP will be out January 22nd in Europe.

(11/26) Broken Hope will be on the European Murder Metal 2001 Tour. Go here for dates.

(11/26) Go here to order a copy of the new DeepRed album, available by mailorder starting December 1st.

(11/26) A shitload of Obliveon news. First off, Bruno is no longer the vocalist, so Stéphane Picard is back doing lead vocals (he did vocals for the first two albums). The band is leaving hypnotic records, and is recording new material to shop around, and eventually make a new full length album. Another tidbit "A version of the theme song for the Japanese commix television series called “Goldorak” from many years ago has been newly recorded (we think it was called “Grendizer” in English). The song is in French and is released on a compilation of themes from T.V. programs we watched when we were young. Several Montreal Bands are featured on the album. It’s gonna be available on the new “Discos el toro” record co". Lastly, the band will be releasing a tab book soon which includes the following songs: Chronocraze, Fiction of veracity, Dynamo, Nemesis, Factory of delusions, Cybervoid, Perihelion, Technocarnivore mothermouth, Devil in my eyes, Biomecanique, Desert incorporel.

(11/21) The HevyDevy website has been redone (and it's lookin good), also available now on the site an "Official Bootleg Video", which has pretty much the same stuff as you can find on the Official Bootleg CD. Check it out.

(11/18) Added a review to Arch Enemy's "Burning Japan - Live 1999" album.

(11/18) Added a review to Soulless's "Blissfully Damned" album.

(11/18) Added a review to Psycho Industry's "Crushing The Individual" album.

(11/18) Added a review to Altar's "Until Heaven Forbids" album.

(11/18) Added a review to Divine Empire's "Doomed To Inherit" album.

(11/18) Added a review to Malevolent Creation's "Envenomed" album.

(11/18) Added a review to Cannibal Corpse's "Live Cannibalism" DVD.

(11/18) Added a review to Cryptopsy's "And Then You'll Beg" album, which definitely wins my album of the month.

(11/18) Digimortal.net will be having a Fear Factory competition. Check it out.

(11/18) Vomit Remnants will be releasing an EP in the near future through Extremities Production.

(11/18) The new Machine Head will be called "Supercharger", and recording will start January.

(11/18) You can now buy the Dracula 2000 soundtrack, which features the brand new Slayer song "Bloodline".

(11/18) Kittie will no longer be on the Morbid Angel, Pantera tour, Soulfly will be on the bill instead.

(11/18) Cryptopsy will be on tour with Dying Fetus, All Out War and Diecast in the US starting in January.

(11/18) The new Skinlab album is currently titled "Channel III", and preproduction is going to start real soon.

(11/18) Soulless will have a 3 song promo out before the end of the year called "Bleeding Darkness", in the hopes of landing a record deal.

(11/18) Preproduction on the new Chimaira cd will start after thanksgiving, all the songs have been written. Also available on their mp3.com site 4 rare tracks, including a rough demo for their new song "Forced Life". Grab em now, they'll be offline by Dec 1st.

(11/18) Here are the tentative release dates for the DVD / Video of Dream Theater's performance at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City on August 30th, 2000: Europe: Monday, February 26th, 2001 USA: Tuesday, February 27th, 2001.

(11/18) I just got an email from Nuclear Blast America: "Effective November 15, the offices of Nuclear Blast America in both New York City and Philadelphia will close. The current staff thanks you for your support and looks to see you again soon shortly." Why you might ask? Well, looks like NB and Century Media are merging to form one big new company. So all the NB folks from NY and Philly are moving out to LA to merge with the Century Media office. The labels will continue using their two names, and will keep their operations somewhat separate, but their combined resources will definitely make them a big force in the metal industry in the coming years.

(11/12) Newbreed.net, the Fear Factory fansite has been renamed digimortal.net, and has a lot of new stuff. Check it out.

(11/11) Here's the first rescheduled dates for the Pantera / Morbid Angel tour.

(11/11) The new Fear Factory has been completely recorded, mixing starts, well, today.

(11/11) Steve DiGiorgio, bass player for Death and Control Denied has just joined Iced Earth. He will still record the new Control Denied album, which has been fully written and recording should start in the next few weeks.

(11/11) The new Gorerotted is now out, check here for the cover and ordering information.

(11/11) Go here if you'd like to order Martyr's "Hopeless Hopes" guitar tab book.

(11/11) Internal Bleeding has just signed with a new still unidentified record label. I'll let you know who it is when I know.

(11/11) Korn is recording a new album. Hope it's better than their last album.

(11/03) The new Malevolent Creation album has just been released, read more about it at their official website.

(11/03) Zakk Wylde will be on Ozzy's next album, the two are writing songs together right now.

(11/03) The Pantera / Kittie / Morbid Angel tour has been postponed, Phil from Pantera has broken two ribs in an accident. But they hope to reschedule for early next year.

(11/03) Go here for an interview with Jason from Dying Fetus.

(10/29) Ok, 7th Child news, Steve, the founding member of the band, has left, and it's unclear if the band will continue without him. He reports "musical differences and some quite major personality differences" as to why he left. If the band does release their new album and/or continue without him, I'll let ya know.

(10/29) The new Fear Factory album is about half recorded, and might be called "Digimortal".

(10/28) Go here for the track listing of the new Relapse compilation CD "Contaminated 3.0"

(10/28) Here's a little piece I picked up on the Divine Empire site: "Jay Blackowicz is out of jail today. As subscribers to the newsletter know, Jay had been in jail for about a month awaiting a court date for an assault with a deadly weapon charge. The short of it goes, Jay had to defend himself against a broken-bottle wielding drunk at his front door, and in doing so got the bottle away from this jackass and bloodied him up pretty good. But after a considerable amount of time behind bars, Jay is out and doing his Divine business. He and JP are currently talking to a drummer from Denmark, and are hoping to bring a new skin-pounder on board soon to tour in support of the new release (in US stores October 31st.)"

(10/28) Rob Zombie just went back into the studios to work on the new album.

(10/22) Zaraza is remixing their second album (they're not making remixes like rap remixes or anything, just they weren't 100% happy with their original mix and so want to do it again), so that'll delay its release till 2001.

(10/22) The Death live album has been postponed again till April 24th 2001.

(10/22) The new Divine Empire will now be out Oct 31st.

(10/22) The link to the new track off the new Coprofago is here.

(10/22) Added a review to Morbid Angel's "Gateways To Annihilation" album.

(10/22) Added a review to Akercocke's "Rape Of The Bastard of Nazarene" album.

(10/22) Added a review to Encabulos's "Abandoning The Flesh" album.

(10/22) Added a review to Napalm Death's "Enemy Of The Music Business" album.

(10/15) An article about Extreme Metal Drumming. Here's the link.

(10/13) The new Divine Empire album "Doomed To Inherit" will be out Nov 14th 2000. Check here for the album cover.

(10/13) Altar will be in the studios for the new album the second week of November.

(10/13) Benediction is recording a new album right now, release sometime in 2001. The title will be "Organized Chaos".

(10/13) Dying Fetus will be touring soon on the "Death Across America" tour with Vader, Deeds Of  Flesh, and Cephalic Carnage. Also, the Japanese release of their new album will have 2 yet undecided bonus tracks (why do the Japanese always get bonus shit??)

(10/13) Looks like Vader's new mini album "Reign Forever World" will be available stateside in 2001, the Polish release may still be sometime in November.

(10/13) Some news from Exhumed on their website: "Just got out of the studio recording 4 songs: "Exhume to Consume" for the Carcass tribute on Deathvomit/Necropolis 'Cannibal Apocalypse" for the Impetigo tribute on Razorback Records "Goreified" and "Torso 2000" for the split EP with Regurgitate on Headfucker Records.

(10/13) A tidbit from Napalm Death in Terrorizer magazine, strangely enough on Earache's website.

(10/13) The new Gorerotted album "Mutilated In Minutes..." will be available on Nov 8th 2000.

(10/13) In Zaraza news, their older album "Slavic Blasphemy" has been released in its entirety on MP3.com, or buy the full album from the same location.

(10/13) Arch Enemy is still writing music for their next album, and they'll try sometime next year to get their live album distributed worldwide and not just in Japan.

(10/13) Just to keep people informed, just saw a movie trailer for "House of 1000 Corpses", which is a new movie by Rob Zombie. Not sure what it's like, but my guess is it'll be a horror film of some kind :)

(10/09) Apparently Steve Smith (bassist) has left 7th Child. More info on this development when I've got it.

(10/09) News straight from Soulless, "We regret to announce that Soulless guitarist Jerry Kessler will be leaving the band in the fall of 2000.  Jerry has been with  us since the last days of Bloodsick and will surely be missed. He will be replaced by Jim Korric, formerly of Akron, Ohio's Dahmer, and more recently Cleveland's Holy Ghost and All That Is Evil. Soulless plans to finish recording and mixing several new songs for a promo due out winter of 2000. We had hoped to have a full-length out by then, but some backing fell through and we are currently looking for someone to put out the next album.  In the meantime, check out our "Blissfully Damned" ep available through MP3.com. It features some live stuff and a couple of new songs (and only costs $5.99 plus shipping)"

(10/09) Sascha Knust (drummer) has left Obscenity. In his place is a new guy called Marc-Andre Dieken.

(10/09) Available here an interview with Nile's Chief Spires in mp3 format from the Megatrends In Brutality Radio Show.

(10/09) And more new album news, Machine Head is working on new material as well, in the studio December of this year, and a tentative spring 2001 date for release.

(10/09) Internal Bleeding is working on material for a new album, half way through writing according to their website.

(10/09) Repulse is still planning on rereleasing Deranged's "Rated X + Sculptures Of The Dead + Architects Of Perversions" on one CD, but no firm date yet, my guess would be early 2001 sometime.

(10/09) Chuck is still writing material for the new Control Denied album, which will be recorded with the same lineup as the last album, and should appear early next year.

(10/09) Broken Hope will be working on a new album this fall.

(10/09) The new Gorerotted album, formerly "Gagged, Shagged, and Body-bagged", will be called "Mutilated In Minutes..." and shall be available before year's end.

(10/09) Go to http://www.fearfactory.com for complete news on the new Fear Factory album and its progress.

(10/09) Go here for the cover art off the new Malevolent Creation album.

(10/09) An mp3 off the new Coprofago album will be available here in a day or two.

(10/09) Slipknot will be on WWF HEAT live on MTV (HEAT's new home) Sunday, October 29th from the WWF Entertainment Complex in Times Square NYC.

(10/09) NIN will be releasing a new EP called "Things Falling Apart" on Oct 24th, which includes some remixes, a cover and an unreleased track from "The Fragile". A Live DVD is also going to be released sometime in Nov.

(10/08) Labelmates with Dying Fetus, Deep Red will be releasing an album in November, check here for some mp3s off their earlier demos, this band is actually sounding pretty damn promising, so check it out, and I'll get a review up for the album when it's released.

(10/05) Testament is working preproduction on a new album, schedule for a mid next year release.

(10/05) Autumn Leaves have decided to break up. Go here for the complete story.

(10/03) Go here for an mp3 off the new Malevolent Creation album.

(10/03) Altar has released a miniCD called "Until Heaven Forbids", actually, they released it quite awhile ago, but no one told me :) It contains demos, covers and live tracks. Will try and get that for review. They're also working on material for a new album, they hope to enter the studios in September, and release it Feb. 2001.

(10/03) The Vader news from yesterday has been confirmed, and BTW the two covers are songs originally by Judas Priest and Destruction.

(10/03) Coal Chamber are now in the studio working on the new album.

(10/03) Sepultura are in the studio right now recording the new album, there will be 14 songs and 3 covers, drum and rhythm guitar recording has just finished, next comes the bass.

(10/03) Monstrosity will be releasing a bestof album called "Enslaving The Masses". They are writing for a new album, but that's still a while's off.

(10/03) Diabolic's new album should be available for preorder at Conquest Music in a few weeks.

(10/03) Dying Fetus will be releasing a split 7" with DeepRed. The Ep will feature a new unreleased track called "Reduced To Slavery" and will be put out on an as yet to be determined label. They will also be doing "Born in a Casket" for the upcoming Cannibal Corpse tribute album on Dwell Records, available later this year.

(10/03) Release of the Live Death album has been postponed till Feb 6th 2001.

(10/02) Added a review to Dying Fetus's "Destroy The Opposition" album. The album should be out for the general public tomorrow from Relapse.

(10/02) The new Apocalyptica came out today, have yet to see a copy for sale anywhere states-side though.

(10/02) Got some unconfirmed Vader news. Apparently the new EP will be called "Reign Forever World", to be released in Poland in Nov, tracks include 3 new tracks 1. Frozen Path, 2. Reign Forever World, 3. Privieledge of Gods (or Mystic Liar), two covers 4. Rapid Fire, 5. Total Disaster, the Litany Japanese Bonus Tracks 6. Red Dunes, 7. Lord of desert, and 4 live tracks 8. North, 9. Forwards to die!, 10. Carnal, 11. Creatures of Light and darkness

(10/02) As many of you know, the Soul Killer news page got destroyed this weekend due to a combination of human error and mistimed backups. But fortunately, I had the last two months cached, a reader of the zine had an old copy of the first 6 months (thanks dude), and a cached copy of the page at google.com filled in the remaining missing months, so now the news page is back! I'd say I'll be more careful in the future with backups, but the truth is, this incident was really just one of those things, 4 backup copies of the site got destroyed all in the same weekend through various circumstances, these things do happen. Anyways, back to the news.

(10/01) In an interview on Darkwave Erik of Hate Eternal says they'll be recording the new album April of 2001. He also discusses Morbid Angel, producing the new Krisiun album, and some of his other projects.

(09/30) Added a review to Cannibal Corpse's "Live Cannibalism" album.

(09/30) Added a review to Soulless's "The Darkening Of Days" album. The band is working on material for a new album.

(09/30) Added a review to the Descend | All That Is Evil Split CD.

(09/29) The Cryptopsy website redesign is complete, also available some info on their CD release party in Montreal, so check it out.

(09/26) The Cannibal Corpse live CD and VHS have been released, with the DVD version coming out Nov 7th 2000.

(09/26) The Nile website just got a redesign, and new news with interviews, tour info, wallpaper, etc.

(09/24) Added a review to Nile's "Black Seeds Of Vengeance" album.

(09/24) A note from Tracy at HevyDevy, the japanese bonus tracks on the Physicist album are not unreleased physicist tracks, they're material that appears on the "Ass-Sordid Demos" and the "Official Bootleg". So if you have those two albums, you're not missing anything if you don't get the japanese version of Physicist. What's more, Devin will be doing a few shows in eastern Canada, including one at Foufounes back in my home town of Montreal. Damn, I move to LA, and now one of my favorite musicians is performing back where I just left. Grrr! Come to LA Devin!

(09/17) Added a review to Exhumed's "Slaughtercult" album.

(09/17) Not exactly new news, but it's new to me and worth mentioning, added a review to Vomit Remnants "Supreme Entity" album.

(09/16) Fear Factory will now be entering the studio Sept 29th instead of the 18th, and Fear Factory will indeed be producing the album along with Rhys Fulber.

(09/13) Go here for an mp3 off the new Dying Fetus, you can also order the album right now through Blunt Force Records.

(09/11) Added a review to Krisiun's "Conquerors Of Armageddon" album. And go here for a recent interview with the band.

(09/10) The new Coprofago has been postponed till Nov because the band switched producers.

(09/10) Napalm Death's new album "Enemy Of The Music Business" will be released Sept 25th. Read more about the new album here.

(09/09) Skinlab is working on a new record for release sometime in spring of 2001. 4 songs have already been written, once the tour is done, they'll start pre-production.

(09/05) Added a review to Nasum's "Human 2.0" album.

(09/05) Added a review to Benumb's "Withering Strands Of Hope" album.

(09/05) Added a review to Luddite | Clone's "The Arsonist And The Architect" album.

(09/05) Added a review to Impaled's "The Dead Shall Dead Remain" album.

(09/05) Added a review to Soul Reaper's "Written In Blood" album.

(09/03) Added a review to The Crown, Krisiun, Nile, Cannibal Corpse show from a few days ago.

(09/03) Added a review to the Dream Theater show from last week.

(09/03) Gustaf of Meshuggah says they're just about finished with the rare album.

(09/03) Cryptopsy's new domain name site is now open, with more to come soon. The new album should be released October 31st, 2000 in the US and will contain 9 tracks.

(09/03) Fear Factory will finally be entering the studios on Sept 18th.

(08/31) A new Malevolent Creation album will be released Oct 17th called "envenomed". 11 tracks, same lineup as their last album, available on Arctic Records (the band's new label). Three more songs were recorded during these recording sessions, the first two being a re-recording of two old demo tracks from their '87 and '88 demo's. The third song being a cover of Dark Angel's "Perish in Flames". These tracks will most likely be used for upcoming compilations on Arctic Music.

(08/20) The long awaited review of Infestation's new album, "Mass Immolation", available in the album review section. Speaking of Infestation, Joe, Jeremy, & Declan have all left the band. Dave (vocalist) will keep the band going and has announced that he is presently looking for replacements for departed members (drummer, guitarists, bassist).

(08/19) Apocalyptica has a new cd coming out Oct 2nd called "Cult", to preview a song from the cd called 'Path' and to see the cover art, click here.

(08/19) The new Dying Fetus will be out Oct 3rd on relapse records.

(08/19) Also available on relapse records on Oct 17th, Contaminated: 10th Anniversary 2CD low-price compilation, which will include 51 tracks including 10 unreleased songs from bands like Neurosis, Amorphis, Dying Fetus, Burnt By The Sun, Pig Destroyer, Today Is The Day, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Vile and Regurgitate.

(08/19) Added a review to the new HatePlow album.

(08/19) Added a review to Devin Townsend's "Ass-Sordid Demos 1990-1996" EP.

(08/14) Coal Chamber is NOT breaking up like has been rumored, but they're taking some time off from one another, and still plan to work on the new album once their vacations are over.

(08/12) Sepultura goes into the studio on Sept 1 in Sao Paulo Brazil to start recording the new album, along with Producer Steve Evetts.

(08/12) Added a review to the new Incantation cd "The Infernal Storm".

(08/12) Added a review to the new Origin cd.

(08/12) Here's the cover to the new Arch Enemy live cd.

(08/08) Korrodead are working on a new EP for release at some point in the future.

(08/07) 7th Child's debut album (to be released early 2001) will be called "Dead, Embalmed And Six Feet Under".

(08/06) The new Coprofago ep "Genesis" will be out any day now.

(08/06) New this week on Relapse Radio, Nile's "Black Seeds Of Vengeance," and Dying Fetus' "Pissing In The Mainstream."

(08/06) Anthrax has been kicked off the Maximum Rock tour, leaving Motley Crue and Megadeth on the bill.

(08/06) The working title for Ozzy's new album is "Back To The Edge". 6 songs have been written.

(08/06) Devin's Physicist album will be available soon in Japan, with 3 new bonus tracks. Those of us not in japan who're interested in those tracks can buy a mail order only cd available from HevyDevy called "Ass-Sordid Demos 1990-1996" which includes 10 hard to find, rare and never before available tracks. He's still working on the new Strapping Young Lad record, and also working on a non-metal cd at the same time.

(08/03) Here's some more info on the new Exhumed album, and here's a soundclip from it. Release date, Aug 15th 2000.

(08/03) Go here for a Real Audio clip of 'Skull Full Of Maggots' off of the live Cannibal Corpse album.

• (07/31) Apparently there will be several versions of the Live Cannibal Corpse album, a german version of the CD and Video, and a "rest of the world" version of the CD and video. Here's the cover for the cd. Here's the full track listings...

german cd: 1. staring through the eyes of the dead 2. blowtorch slaughter 3. stripped, raped and strangled 4. fucked with a knife 5. unleashing the bloodthirsty 6. dead human collection 7. gallery of suicide 8. perverse suffering 9. the spine splitter 10. i will kill you 11. devoured by vermin 12. disposal of the body 13. sacrifice 14. confessions

world cd: 1. staring through the eyes of the dead 2. blowtorch slaughter 3. stripped, raped and strangled 4. i cum blood 5. covered with sores 6. fucked with a knife 7. unleashing the bloodthirsty 8. dead human collection 9. gallery of suicide 10. meat hook sodomy 11. perverse suffering 12. the spine splitter 13. gutted 14. i will kill you 15. devoured by  Vermin 16. disposal of the body 17. a skull full of maggots 18. hammer smashed face

world video: 1. staring through the eyes of the dead 2. blowtorch slaughter 3. stripped, raped and strangled 4. i cum blood 5. covered with sores 6. unleashing the bloodthirsty 7. dead human collection 8. gallery of suicide 9. meat hook sodomy 10. perverse suffering 11. the spine splitter 12. gutted 13. i will kill you 14. disposal of the body 15. a skull full of maggots 16. hammer smashed face

german video: 1. staring through the eyes of the dead 2. blowtorch slaughter 3. stripped, raped and strangled 4. unleashing the bloodthirsty 5. dead human collection 6. gallery of suicide 7. perverse suffering 8. the spine splitter 9. i will kill you 10. disposal of the body 11. devoured by vermin ( video ) 12. sentenced to burn ( video )

• (07/30) Added a review to the new Machine Head EP "Year Of The Dragon".
• (07/30) Great news, Dream Theater will be playing "Metropolis pt. 2" in its entirety at the House Of Blues show in Hollywood, CA, on August 20th, to make up for any fans that missed the opportunity to see it due to the situation at the first night at The Palace in January.
• (07/30) As fans already know, Napster, the software used for trading mp3s between users, was almost killed a few days ago, a court order was going to shut it down because too many people who use the software are dealing in trading illegal copyright material. Of course, the rest of us who are trading bootlegs, demos, live stuff, or using it to see if a song or album is cool before buying it, well, we'd be just plain out of luck. But the software got a reprieve at the last minute, and the servers will remain online until the developers of the software get their day in court. I tell ya, if the record labels spent a fraction of the time they're spending beating on these guys to invent new distribution methods...but that would be too hard to do, easier to just pay lawyers then try and make the world a better place.
• (07/30) The new Fear Factory cd has been postponed till Feb 2001. They'll be going into the studio on sept 5th, no producer yet, but they may self produce it or use Rhys. For a current track listing, and info on the songs, and other tidbits from Ray, go to the New Fear Factory album progress report.
• (07/30) The release of the live Death album has been postponed indefinitely. Possibly late this fall but no real street date yet.
• (07/30) Go here for a preview of the cover art for the new Morbid Angel album, art by Dan Seagrave (note that this is a preview copy of the art only, and not the finished piece of work which will be on the cover.)
• (07/28) An mp3 of that new Nile song is available here. Also check out the cool cover at the same location.
• (07/21) Go here for an interview with Blood Duster, the new cd has been renamed to "Cunt", and should be out in the coming months. And check out their official Website.
• (07/20) Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Krisiun, and The Crown will be playing The Whisky Sept 1st in Los Angeles.
• (07/20) To here a track off the new Nile cd, go to the release site. Also, Cephalic Carnage, Exhumed, Origin, Mortician, Deceased, Bongzilla, Benumb, Luddite Clone & Flesh Parade will be performing as part of the Relapse Contamination 2000 tour starting July 30th, tour dates on the site.
• (07/15) Fear Factory news, 21 songs have been written for the new album, but only about 9 or 10 are to be used on the cd. The rest will be used for B-sides and video game soundtracks etc.
• (07/15) Some Dream Theater news, they plan on recording a show on Aug 30th at the Roseland Ballroom, New York City for a possible Live DVD/Video/CD. This will be one of the last shows in which they will perform "Scenes From A Memory" in its entirety.
• (07/15) Morbid Angel's new album will be out Sept 25th. Visit the earache site for photos of the band in the studio.
• (07/15) Rumor has it that Cannibal Corpse played a birthday party for Elija Blue, son of Cher and Greg Allman, at the Viper Room in Hollywood July 10th. Elija is a huge Cannibal Corpse fan, and what better way to celebrate a birthday than with your favorite death metal band? Attendees included Cher, Cameron Diaz, and others.
• (07/15) The infamous HatePlow will be releasing a new album Aug 15th called "The Only Law is Survival". Dave Culross is on drums for this release, and visit the Pavement Site for crappy real audio samples of the album (the album isn't crappy, just the real audio samples).
• (07/12) Dream Theater is out on tour in the US this summer, and will be coming to Hollywood for two shows at the House of Blues, Aug 20th and 21st.
• (07/10) I really don't like mixing album reviews with news, but I'd definitely check out that Machine Head mp3 spoken of a few news items below before buying the album, it really is not impressive, it's basically a rap song with some pseudo-Korn guitar stuff going on. Come on guys, Burn My Eyes! That was such a cool and unique album. Brutality over popularity!!
• (07/10) Ok, looks like Gorguts has recorded a new album already, to be released sometime in September on Olympic. Should be interesting, I wonder what style this cd will be considering the highly experimental style of their last album.
• (07/09) Gorguts may be on their way to recording a new album, more details when I got em.
• (07/09) Spitfire records is discussing with Testament the possibility of recording and releasing a live show from the band on VHS and DVD.
• (07/09) Soils Of Fate hope to have their debut album out sometime later this year.
• (07/09) Coal Chamber have fired Sharon Osbourne (Ozzy's wife) as their manager. They may have a new album out early 2001, hopefully it'll be better then the last one.
• (07/09) Vader will enter the studio on July 28th to record a new album that will feature 3-4 new tracks, 2 covers (Judas Priest and Destruction), 2 bonus tracks from the Japan edition of Litany and 4 live tracks from Thrash'em All Festival in Poland.
• (07/09) Machine Head have released an EP called "The Year Of The Dragon Maxi-Single", which includes "The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears" / "Desire To Fire" (live) / "The Blood, The Sweat, The Beers" (live) / "From This Day" (live) / "New Resistance", which is a new track. You can purchase this Europe only album through your fav importer, or get an mp3 copy of the new song (well, it's a demo song, but it's a demo for a new unreleased track) here.
• (07/09) Here's a message directly from Gustaf of Meshuggah: "Since our last tour in France and Switzerland (which was great, thanks to all of you who came to see us, you ROCK!) we've been taking some time off to work on not one but TWO new Meshuggah records!!! One of them will be the rare tracks record you've heard about. The tracklisting is still secret as we speak but I guarantee it will contain some highly sought after recordings as well as a few surprises that will give you some insight in how our songs evolve...and how some of them ends up in a dead end street or in the landfill... Also, we started yesterday to go thru hours and hours of video tapes for the CD plus section. We're still trying to find some footage with ourselves dressed and sober, quite a task indeed. And if that's not enough we're busy writing material for a BRAND NEW ALBUM! Alright, that's all for now. Stay tuned and stay CP! - Gustaf"
• (07/09) Fear Factory has made a quick 5 song demo of songs off the new album to play for potential producers, tracklist is 'Digimortal', 'Invisible Wounds', 'Acres Of Skin', 'Hurt Conveyor', 'Lynchpin', however, I assume this album will never get released to the general public (unless someone manages to procure a copy, stuff like that tends to happen.)
• (07/09) Chimaira will record a new album this fall called "Pass Out Of Existence", with Fear Factory's Dino Cazares as producer. Expect an early 2001 release. Added a review to their album "This Present Darkness" in the album review page.
• (07/08) Added a review to Punchdrunk's album "Music For Them Asses".
• (07/08) Added a review to Napalm Death's "The Complete Radio One Sessions" EP.
• (07/07) It's official, Morbid Angel's new album will be called "Gateways To Annihilation", and the cover will be done by the famous Dan Seagrave. Release is sometime this fall.
• (07/05) The Arch Enemy release "Burning Japan - Live 1999" will be postponed till Aug 23rd.
• (07/02) Added a review to the new Deftones album.
• (07/01) According to the Olympic site, Alex Marquez will only be recording the drums for the new Divine Empire album, he will not be touring with them. Maybe that's what the Divine Empire site means when saying he's no longer with the band, hopefully the drum work he recorded will still be on the album.
• (07/01) Newbreed.net is saying the new Fear Factory album will be delayed because they're still looking for a new producer.
• (07/01) Napalm Death is working on their new album, to be released sometime September 2000 on Dreamcatcher. Meanwhile, they've released "The Complete Radio One Sessions", all their bbc sessions on one cd and some bonus tracks. Here's the track list 1. Kill, The / Prison Without Walls / Dead Part 1 2. Deceiver / Lucid Fairytale / In Extremis 3. Blind To The Truth / Negative Approach / Common Enemy 4. Obstinate Direction / Life / You Suffer (Part Two) 5. Multinational Corporations / Instinct Of Survival / Stigmatized 6. Moral Crusade / Worlds Apart / M.A.D. 7. Divine Death / C.S. / Control 8. Walls / Raging In Hell / Conform Or Die / S.O.B. 9. Unchallenged Hate / Mentally Murdered  10. From Enslavement To Obliteration/ Suffer The Children 11. Retreat To Nowhere / Scum 12. Deceiver / Social Sterility 13. Glimpse Into Genocide 14. Greed Killing 15. My Own Worst Enemy 16. Antibody.

(06/30) Dying Fetus has signed to Relapse Records, expect the new album in October. For the album cover and a tracklisting, go here.

(06/30) Release of Nile's new album has been pushed up (believe it or not) to Sept 5th in North America. Europe the 11th, UK the 18th.

(06/25) Added a review to Disgorge "Cranial Impalment" and "She Lay Gutted". If you haven't picked up these albums yet, I highly recommend them to all who need some sickness in their lives.

(06/25) Added a review to Korrodead's self titled demo.

(06/25) Earache has opened a new part of their site dedicated to the new Morbid Angel album that's being recorded right now, not much there now, but it's available here.

(06/25) The official Divine Empire site is saying Alex Marquez is no longer drumming for the band. No more information is given.

(06/25) Added a review to the new Brutal Insanity album "Society Kill Catalyst".

(06/24) Looks like the new Slayer album has been pushed back to early 2001.

(06/24) The new Coprofago EP will be released in August.

(06/24) Fear Factory may be making a videogame for the Playstation 2 sometime next year.

(06/11) Added a review to Devin Townsend's "Physicist" album.

(06/11) Gorerotted just entered the studio to record a new album, production being done by Dave Chang (Stuck Mojo, Machine Head). Current title is "Gagged, Shagged, and Body-bagged".

(06/04) Added a review to Myrkskog's "DeathMachine" album.

(06/04) Go here for some clips from the new Extreme Noise Terror album.

(06/04) Go here for a song off the new Deftones album.

(06/03) Disgorge is working on a new album called "Dissecting The Apostles", it'll be ready when it is. They're touring with Mortal Decay, Cephalic Carnage and Deeds Of Flesh this summer.

(06/03) Candlelight Records have signed former Earache group Extreme Noise Terror, and they plan to have a new album out sometime in September.

(06/03) Here are those details about the AngelCorpse breakup. Osmose will still be re-releasing their most recent CD, The Inexorable, in digipack form with bonus covers of Sarcophago and Morbid Angel. Look for guitarist Gene and drummer Tony to form a new group sometime in the near future.

(06/03) Anyone who pre-ordered a copy of Devin Townsend's new cd, the album is in the mail. Until it gets here, go enjoy the Physicist site.

(06/03) Nile's new album will be out September 12th.

(06/03) Exhumed's new album will be called "Slaughtercult" and will be out August 29th on Relapse records.

(05/30) Coprofago is selling an "Empty Creature" EP, which includes 3 songs from the "Images of Despair" album. To get it, go here.

(05/30) Sepultura are now in the studio doing preproduction on the new album. No release date, it'll be ready when it's "perfect".

(05/28) Cryptopsy will start recording the new album in the beginning of July, for a hopeful fall release. Current album title: "And Then You'll Beg".

(05/22) Fear Factory hope to have the new album out on Oct 31st of this year, which would be their 10th anniversary.

(05/21) Hate Eternal will be on tour some more this July and August in the states, and will roll through LA on July 22nd at the Keyclub. Mayhem is headlining the tour, and Exhumed is coming along as well.

(05/21) Pete Helmkamp has decided to leave AngelCorpse, and so the band has now officially broken up. More details on why when the band makes a statement on their website.

(05/20) Cannibal Corpse's "Live Cannibalism" cd will be out sept 28th, and a VHS and DVD version will be out as well at about the same time.

(05/20) A few bits and pieces from Devin. The Physicist album should be available mailorder on may 30th or so, yes, he does want to do a second Ocean Machine record eventually, he has plans for a new SYL cd but no clue if that's the next thing he's going to work on, and he apparently has been speaking to Fred from Meshuggah about maybe one day doing some work together, which would be fucking awesome.

(05/14) Arch Enemy will release a japan only live album called "Burning Japan - Live 1999" (so talk to your favorite import store). Release date is July 19th 2000.

(05/13) Death's "Live At The Whisky" album should be out in August.

(05/13) Yes, finally some Blood Duster news. The band is recording an EP to be released soon called "Cable" (it will have at least 7 tracks). They also plan to record a full length album at the end of the year, and have plans to do a video as well (god only knows what that'll look like <G>)

(05/13) The new Nile will be called "Black Seeds Of Vengeance", not "Seeds Of Vengeance". Expect it in September, it's being recorded right now.

(05/13) Morbid Angel are now in Morrisound recording the new "G" album.

(05/13) Physicist, the Devin Townsend Project, will be available by mailorder from HDR Sometime between May 26-30th. Their taking pre orders now. For some mp3 clips, go here.

(05/13) Added a review to Martyr's new cd "Warp Zone".

(05/12) Newbreed.net, the best unofficial Fear Factory site I've found has been offline for awhile now. It has resurfaced, they're just having problems with the URL. Check them out at this temp URL here.

(05/07) Go to the Divine Empire site to see videos of the band rehearsing for the new album.

(05/07) Messiah, the videogame who's soundtrack includes several Fear Factory tracks, is out now. The band is still hard at work on the new album with almost all the new songs written, and hope to start recording this month. For a chat transcript of Raymond (the drummer) talking about videogames, the new album, and other stuff, go here. Interesting news for those of you too lazy to read the interview, the australia live album won't happen because the band and roadrunner couldn't come to an agreement on the album, there will be no remix album of Obsolete, and several songs on the new album may use some riffs that come from the 4 tracks written for the Demolition Racer videogame.

(05/07) As I reported awhile ago, the members of Oppressor broke up and reformed a new band named Soil (minus Jim their guitar player, added the former bass player from Broken Hope, and added a new vocalist). The new band is basically hard rock, somewhere between Pearl Jam and COC. Their site has some mp3 of their music. Personally, I'm not very impressed, so this will be the last time I speak of the band, just figured someone out there might be interested.

(05/07) Altar has a new official site up, go check it out here. The Band will also start recording their next album (5th studio album) this september, release tentatively in Feb. 2001. Lastly, they'll release a mini-CD in May. The songs that will appear on this mini-CD are the bonus track available on "In The Name of The Father": the Iron Maiden-cover 'The Trooper', a new track 'I Am Your New Provider', two livetracks, the whole demo 'And God Created Satan To Blame For His Mistakes' and the videoclip from 'God Damn You'.

(05/07) A new Rob Zombie track "Scum of the Earth" is available on the Mission Impossible II soundtrack, out next week.

(05/07) Added a review to Nile's "In The Beginning" album.

(04/30) Added a review to the Slipknot home video. Speaking of the band, the cover of June's Guitar World Magazine has the band on the cover, an interview with the entire band and info on the two guitar players.

(04/30) Yup, the new live Cannibal Corpse cd and video will be called "Live Cannibalism" and should be out at the end of the summer.

(04/22) Looks like we may be getting some live Cannibal Corpse stuff sometime this summer. More news when I got it.

(04/20) Diabolic has not only rereleased their early demo "City Of The Dead" on CD with TWO bonus tracks, but it'll be rereleased in digipak format soon with a full 5 bonus tracks.

(04/20) The Slayer Boxset has been pushed back to Spring 2001, and their new album will be out in September of this year at the earliest. The band also might be on tour soon with Pantera.

(04/20) Added a review to 7th Child's "Bled To Death" EP.

(04/20) Added a review to Obscenity's "Intense" album.

(04/19) For those living in Ohio, April 21st & 22nd in Cleveland at The Flying Machine, 3970 Josephine St. - Lorain, OH, two nights of death, with the following bands: Dying Fetus, Deeds Of Flesh, Disgorge, Incantation, Vital Remains, Skinless, Pyrexia, Mortician, 420, Eternal Suffering, Cephalic Carnage, Regurgitation, Prophecy, Lividity, Morgue, Waco Jesus, Sintury, Fleshgrind, Anal Blast, Ton, Reinfection, Pessimist, Mortal Decay, Corpse Vomit, Erotic Incisions, Malignancy, Nunslaughter, Intestinal Infection, Suture, Molded Hate, etc. For more info, call (216) 226-9877

(04/19) Added a review to the new Vader album "Litany".

(04/19) Strapping Young Lad are embarking on their first Western Canada tour starting May 11, opening for Canadian metal band, The Smalls. For more info, go to the HevyDevy site.

(04/15) Added a review to the new Dream Theater EP "Through Her Eyes".

(04/15) Exhumed will be in the studio in May, and will release this their second album in july.

(04/14) Here's a link to an interview with Dan Swanö, who discusses, among other things, the new Infestdead album called "JesuSatan". No idea when that will be out.

(04/14) Also available sometime this summer, Dying Fetus' new album which will be called "Destroy The Opposition".

(04/14) Divine Empireis in the studio recording their second album, "Doomed To Inherit", which should be out this summer.

(04/12) Diabolic has rereleased their early demo "City Of The Dead" on CD with one bonus track. The band is also almost finished writing all the new material for the new album, called "Subterrainial Magnitude". More info, including some band interviews available here.

(04/05) Internal Bleeding will be rereleasing their previous demos "Invocation of Evil" and "Perpetual Degradation" on one CD sometime this summer.

(04/04) Added a review to Devin Townsend's "Official Bootleg" live album.

(04/04) Added a review to the new Altar CD "In The Name Of The Father".

(04/04) The new album "Warp Zone" from Montreal band Martyr is out now as well. Go here to order.

(04/04) The new Encabulos CD "Abandoning The Flesh"  is out now.

(04/04) The new Deftones cd "The White Pony" will be out June 20th 2000.

(04/04) Added a review to Pantera's "Reinventing the Steel" album.

(04/02) To hear an mp3 off the new Vader album go here.

(03/23) The new Vader is out now in Europe, it'll be out May 9th 2000 in North America, but I don't think any of us will wait that long and we'll just all buy the import, right?

(03/23) Angel Corpse, Satyricon, and Krisiun are on tour together from the end of this month till the end of April.

(03/23) Apparently the new Encabulos will be out March 30th.

(03/23) Scattered Remnants is no longer with Repulse Records. Not even sure if the band is still together or not, news when I know.

(03/23) Chuck of Death fame speaks for the first time after his surgery, he's doing fine and ready to get back to work, seems he's already written a new Control Denied album.

(03/23) Theory In Practice is working on new material for a new album.

(03/23) Arch Enemy is recording material for a new album.

(03/23) Morbid Angel are entering Morrisound soon to record the new album.

(03/18) The new Physicist cd by Devin Townsend has been recorded, now it just needs to be mixed and manufactured, so probably another couple of months till it's released. HevyDevy records is also selling a limited number of bootlegged cds, all live tracks with no overdubs. Go to their site for more info.

(03/14) Death will get a live album soon on Nuclear Blast, called "Live at the Whisky".

(03/05) Looks like the rumors were true. Doug Cerrito (guitar) and Tim Yueng (drums) have left Hate Eternal. Doug has apparently gotten himself a 9 to 5 job, and so isn't interested in touring, and Tim's doing the school thing. Replacement on drums for the band will be Derek Roddy from Divine Empire, no new guitar player yet, so tour will continue as a 3 piece. New material that the band has written and is currently writing will probably become a new album sometime early next year. Speaking of Divine Empire, apparently their replacement drummer will be the famous Alex Marquez, formerly of Malevolent Creation. Cool. Expect Divine Empire to record some new material by the end of the year.

(02/28) Added a review to the new Malevolent Creation BestOf album "Manifestation".

(02/28) The new Deftones album will be called "The White Pony", and is supposedly a lot mellower then past albums, which I hope doesn't mean it sucks. No confirmed date, just sometime this spring.

(02/28) The new Vader album will be out March 21st 2000.

(02/27) The new Dream Theater single "Through Her Eyes" will be out tomorrow in Europe, and who knows everywhere else, so maybe now's the time to go to your favorite import place (unless you live in Europe, of course).

(02/26) Go here for 3 sound clips off the new Pantera CD.

(02/20) Added a review to the new Dying Fetus EP, "Grotesque Impalement", as well as the rerelease of "Infatuation With Malevolence" with bonus material.

(02/20) Added a review to the new Deranged album, "III".

(02/20) Added a review to Slipknot's self titled debut, and here's a link to an interview with the drummer (former drummer for Anal Blast).

(02/19) Infestation's new CD will be out March 13th.

(02/19) The new Nile CD will be called "Seeds of Vengeance" and will be released late May early June. Their reissue of several early demos called "In The Beginning" will be out in March now.

(02/19) Malevolent Creation will be spending this summer recording a new album.

(02/19) Apparently Cryptopsy's "None So Vile" has been rereleased finally by Displeased records, and is available for sale now. None of the online mailorder places have it on their websites yet, but there have been several reports of it being in stores in europe.

(02/13) The new Slayer boxset will actually be two boxsets, one with all their older albums remastered and a whole ton of bonus stuff (demos, unreleased tracks, live tracks, videos, etc), and another that just includes the bonus stuff so fans who already own all of slayer's albums don't have to buy them all over again just to get the rare stuff. It's supposed to be out sometime this spring, and the new album will be out June or so.

(02/13) Release of the new Vader album has been pushed back till March.

(02/13) Dying Fetus will be in the studios in April to record their next full length album.

(02/13) Here's the cover art for the Malevolent Creation Best of album http://www.multimania.com/darkwave/malevolent.JPG

(02/13) Pantera's new album called "Reinventing the Steel" will be released March 21st. Hope it's a good album, because that album name really sucks.

(02/06) Last night's Dream Theater concert went off without a hitch. The palace is still claiming that they did not oversell, and the police cleared the room simply because there were too many people on the dance floor. Of course, anyone who actually attended the show will remember the crowded conditions in the balcony as well, and will know just what a bullshit excuse they've come up with to save their asses. Anyways, not matter how much this situation pisses me off, I'll refrain from speaking about it anymore, unless I get information on a refund for concert goers. That is definitely the last time I go anywhere near the Palace, except to get my money back.

(02/05) 7th Child shall record their debut CD later this year.

(02/05) I received an email from the Palace who put on the Dream Theater show last night. They say the police were in error because the Palace holds 1250 people, and only 980 were attending. However, I find that hard to believe, considering there were 3-4 people on each step sitting in the aisle because there was no other room to put them. And they have yet to comment about refunds. I hope for everyone's sake the show that's happening tonight goes well. If anyone has any info on how tonight's show goes, as well as any comments the band might make about the subject, I'd love to hear them.

(02/05) Devin Townsend is now recording the vocals for his "Physicist" project, followed by mixing and then it's all done. They are also currently planning a CD-ROM bonus to come with the CD, including interviews, live videos, etc.

(02/05) Went to see Dream Theater tonight (well, last night the friday night show on the 4th) playing at the Palace in Hollywood. And all hell broke loose, as the band gets pulled from the stage when the palace overbooks the show and the fire marshall closes down the concert! Here's the facts, I show up to the concert half an hour after doors open. The doors had apparently just opened, and there was a huge line snaking down the street, I was surprised and had no clue how they'd fit that many people in the small venue. When I finally got in half an hour later, the place was PACKED!, and the opening act (The Dixie Dreggs with Steve Morse) had already been playing for half an hour already, before most of the people had even come in! I still managed to find seating in the balcony, DT came on, played up until "The Spirit Carries On", and half way through, mike tells the crowd that the fire marshall is stopping the concert. We thought it was a joke, a minute later, he just said "fuck it, we'll keep playing till we get booted off". They continued the song, the venue shut off the PA, the band kept playing, finally, the venue cut the power to the amps, and so the concert ended. The crowd stayed put, chanting lots of mean things at the promoter and venue (especially invigorating was the chants of "Suck my Dick" directed at the promoter), who had obviously overbooked the show, and so the fire marshall had shut it down as a fire hazard. Since the crowd wouldn't leave, the riot police rolled in, and started moving the crowd out of the building. Once we were out of the building, we hung around till the riot police told us to move on. The crowd was angry and disappointed but peaceful, didn't see any violence or anything, although there was at least one fan arrested. Rumors have been flying, I heard a rumor that the band was arrested for "inciting" a riot. I also heard that the sold out show tomorrow night is still a go, but even if that's true, I'm sure that show is also overbooked, which means either it'll get shut down again, or else half the fans with tickets won't be able to get inside. And I doubt Dream Theater will want to play at the palace again considering how badly they were just treated. I also heard the theater will be shut down for two weeks because this is not the first time they've violated fire laws. All of those are rumors, take them for what they're worth. So in short, I feel really gypped, I would like some sort of refund considering I didn't get to see the whole show, and I think the promoter or whomever sold more tickets then seating should be castrated. A lot of angry and sad Dream Theater fans went home unhappy tonight.

(02/01) The new Obscenity album "Intense" will be available in Europe Feb 28th. And the cover art is available at their site.

(02/01) Not sure exactly when it happened, but Oppressor have broken up, and members from the band have reformed into a band named Soil, playing a different style of music. The band will be sorely missed, I thought their last two albums were excellent.

(01/31) Coprofago from Chile is working on new material for an EP called "Genesis".

(01/31) Australia's Encabulos will be releasing an EP called "Abadoning The Flesh" in late feb on Venomous Records.

(01/31) AngelCorpse will be releasing a "The Inexorable" Digipak with bonus songs soonish.

(01/31) Meshuggah is busy writing new songs for a new album. Not sure if this album will be a new full release, or an ep with new songs, live stuff, etc, but more news when I've got it.

(01/31) Fear Factory are working on their new album, the official website just put up the "new album progress report page", which will be updated constantly until the new album is released. No plans to go into the studio yet, but songs are being written.

(01/23) Dream Theater will be releasing a new single in the next month or so called "Through Her Eyes", available in europe and Japan only. Tracklisting is 'Through Her Eyes (Radio Edit)', 'Through Her Eyes (Alternate Album Mix)', 'Home (Live)', and 'When Images and Words Unite (Live medley)'.

(01/21) These guys just never slow down, Napalm Death is planning to release a new album before the end of the year.

(01/21) Go here for an interview with Hate Eternal's Erik Rutan.

(01/21) Bolt Thrower is working on a new album for Metal Blade, tentative release date of Nov 2000.

(01/20) Exhumed plans to enter the studio with James Murphy sometime in March and will begin their new album.

(01/20) Expect www.Cryptopsy.com to show up real soon, and apparently the rumor that their new album will include several re-recorded older songs is false.

(01/20) Chuck Schuldiner of Death has just gone through surgery to remove the tumor on his brain stem. He's awake and alert, and hopefully that means the end of his ordeal, but only time will tell.

(01/17) The guys in Fear Factory are now at work on the new CD, autumn 2000 release date. Titles so far include 'Lynchpin' and 'Of Man and Machine'. The band plans on bringing in Cypress Hill's Sen Dog and B-Real to contribute vocals, and Skinny Puppy's Cevin Key to help with programming.

(01/15) Joey Belladona will not be touring with Anthrax, they couldn't come to a financial agreement. But the tour continues with John Bush as vocalist.

(01/15) As probably everyone knows, Marty Friedman has left Megadeth, hopefully he'll put out some more solo stuff, because the recent Megadeth material really isn't worthy of his talents (my opinion, of course).

(01/15) Some news about Chuck's current condition can be found on the mtv website.

(01/13) Rob Zombie is back in the studio this month to start on some new material.

(01/13) As a note, Joe from Broken Hope has not left the band, he just quit the tour because he didn't feel his voice was up for it, which is why they had to get a replacement for the tour.. He's still a member of the band, and will perform on future albums, and maybe future tours.

(01/12) Soul Killer now has its very own domain name at www.soukillerwebzine.com! Everyone change your bookmarks please to reflect this new address.

(01/11) The new Dying Fetus EP "Grotesque Impalement" will be available soon, and can be ordered from their website. This EP is on newly founded Blunt Force Records, and includes rerecordings of two old Dying Fetus songs, as well as some new stuff.

(01/11) The Nile rerelease "In the Beginning" will be out Feb 14th, just in time for valentines day :)

(01/11) In Deranged news, the band is already working on a follow up album to "III". Repulse records is reissuing their debut album "Rated X" with an extra 9 bonus tracks that includes all material off their previous demos "Architects of perversions" and "Sculpture of the dead". "III" has also been released in Japan with 4 bonus tracks. Lastly, Listenable will release a 10" split w/ Deranged and Abscess beginning of 2000. Deranged´s side will contain 2 new tracks + 1 cover ("Relentless" - Pentagram)

(01/09) Added a review to Angelcorpse's new CD "The Inexorable".

(01/09) Nile is re-releasing their previous two recordings, "Ramses Bringer of War" and "Festivals of Atonement" on one CD to be called "In the Beginning". This nine song disc will appear on Relapse Records in North America and on Hammerheart Records in Europe. It will be released around late January or early February 2000. And their new album will be out May / June, with a tour to follow.

(01/09) 7th Child's newest 4 track EP, "Bled to Death" is out on Deadsun Records (based in France).

(01/09) Infestation's debut album, titled "Mass Immolation" is now expected in February on Lunar Sound Records (sub-label of Candlelight).

(01/08) Added a review to Iniquity's new album "Five Across The Eyes".

(01/08) Added a review to Anthrax's new DVD / Video "Return Of The Killer B's A's".

(01/08) Soul Killer has changed its format a bit.

(01/03) A new Obscenity CD should be out in February, called "Intense".

(01/03) The Monstrosity video should be out sometime this month.

(01/03) To be filed under the "Really tired of this" column, Monument, formerly Rapture, formerly Theory In Practice, is now Theory in Practice again. Expect their current CD to be reissued on Listenable records in Feb.

(01/03) Apparently the new Cryptopsy album is being worked on right now, and it will have eight new songs and re-recordings of the old demo track 'Back To The Worms' and 'Gravaged (A Cryptopsy)' from "Blasphemy Made Flesh".

(01/02) See what were yours and my Favorite Albums Of 1999!