Review of Witchcraft - The Alchemist (2007)

9.3/10

1. Walk Between the Lines - 3:24

2. If Crimson Was Your Colour - 3:47

3. Leva - 4:33

4. Hey Doctor - 5:12

5. Samaritan Burden - 6:27

6. Remembered - 5:14

7. The Alchemist (parts 1, 2 & 3) -14:38

The Metal Review podcast 003

TheMetalReviewPodcast003_123259.mp3

METALLICA: Original 'Master Of Puppets' Artwork To Be Auctioned

The original cover artwork for METALLICA's classic 1986 album "Master of Puppets", painted by artist Don Brautigam, will be auctioned at Christie's auction house at Rockefeller Plaza, New York City on November 24.

The framed, 17x17-inch piece is signed on the lower right of the painting DB.

The estimate sale price is set between $20,000 and $30,000.

The auction is part of the punk/rock sale, which includes memorabilia from such artists as the RAMONES, SEX PISTOLS, THE CLASH, BLACK FLAG, LED ZEPPELIN and JIMI HENDRIX.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108126

Paul Di'Anno will return for his first U.S. tour in 15 years in November-January. So far the following dates have been confirmed:

Nov. 28 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx

Nov. 29 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx

Nov. 30 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony

Dec. 03 - Farmingdale, NY @ Crazy Donkey

Dec. 04 - Yonkers, NY @ The Haunt

Dec. 05 - Clifton, NJ @ Dingbatz

Dec. 06 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance

Dec. 07 - Toronto, Ontario @ Kathedral

Dec. 09 - Cleveland, OH @ Jigsaw Saloon

Dec. 11 - Mt. Clemens, MI @ Emerald Theater

Dec. 13 - Murfeesboro, NC @ Zakks

Dec. 14 - Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11

Dec. 19 - El Paso, TX @ Uncle Paulies Pub

Dec. 20 - San Antonio, TX @ Roadhouse Pavilion

Dec. 26 - San Juan Capistrano, CA @ Coach House

Dec. 27 - Redondo Beach, CA @ Brixton

Jan. 02 - San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle

Jan. 03 - West Hollywood, CA @ Key Club

Jan. 08 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater

Jan. 09 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon

Jan. 12 - Aurora, CO @ Iliff Park Saloon

Jan. 16 - St. Petersburg, FL @ The Garage

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?Mode=Archive&Date=11/4/2008

Brazilian thrashers SEPULTURA will release their new album, "A-Lex" (which stands for "no law" or "without law"), on January 26, 2009 via SPV Records. The CD, which is based on the Anthony Burgess novel "A Clockwork Orange" (later turned into the classic film by Stanley Kubrick), was recorded at in São Paulo, Brazil at Trama Studios and was mixed at Mega Studios. According to SEPULTURA, the follow-up to 2006's "Dante XXI" features 18 songs with a total playing time of 60 minutes and was completed in record time because it is basically a recording of the band's studio jams captured over a three-month period.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108378

SEPULTURA's forthcoming CD will be the group's first to feature drummer Jean Dolabella, who replaced founding member Igor Cavalera in 2006. Igor has since reunited with his brother and former SEPULTURA frontman Max Cavalera in CAVALERA CONSPIRACY.

"A-Lex" track listing:

01. A-Lex I

02. Moloko Mesto

03. Filthy Rot

04. We've Lost You

05. What I do!

06. A-Lex II

07. The Treatment

08. Metamorphosis

09. Sadistic Values

10. Forceful Behavior

11. Conform

12. A-Lex III

13. The Experiment

14. Strike

15. Enough Said

16. Ludwig Van

17. A-Lex IV

18. Paradox

ANTHRAX Begins Recording New Album

ANTHRAX has entered a Chicago studio to begin recording its new album, tentatively titled "Worship Music", for a May 2009 release via Nuclear Blast Records (in Europe). The band will record 13 new original songs and at least four covers, including "Brain Of J" (PEARL JAM), "Big Eyes" (CHEAP TRICK), "New Noise" (THE REFUSED), and "Running Down A Dream" (TOM PETTY). Drummer Charlie Benante wrote in a recent online posting, "The new tunes are very strong. We have some old-school thrash and some stuff that is like 'We've Come For You All' meets 'Sound Of White Noise'. This record is not forced — it is a very organic and honest representation of where we are as a band and as writers. I hear many things nowadays that sound forced, [and] I ain't digging that. There is a six-minute tune called 'Down Goes The Sun', I believe it is one of my favorite songs. The music itself is epic, it sends chills up my spine. 'Face with No Name', 'The Devil You Know', 'Earth On Hell' — all killer

AC/DC: 'Black Ice' Breaks One Million Mark In U.S

AC/DC's "Black Ice" has topped The Billboard 200 chart for the second week in a row after selling 271,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

"Black Ice", which is exclusively available via Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and AC/DC's web site, was down 65% over its debut total, according to Billboard.com. The album has sold more than 1 million units in two weeks

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108310

CRADLE OF FILTH's 'Godspeed' Cracks U.S. Top 50

"Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder", the new album from the British extreme metal band CRADLE OF FILTH, sold a little over 11,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 48 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD is the follow-up to "Thornography", which shifted nearly 13,000 copies the first week out to enter The Billboard chart at No. 66. This was roughly in line with the performance of its predecessor, "Nymphetamine", which premiered with almost 14,000 copies back in October 2004.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108293

NAPALM DEATH, VENOMOUS CONCEPT, MISERY INDEX Confirmed For MARYLAND DEATHFEST

NAPALM DEATH, VENOMOUS CONCEPT and MISERY INDEX have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Maryland Deathfest, set to take place May 22-24, 2009 at the Sonar in Baltimore, MD.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

ABSCESS (California)

ABSU (Texas)

AGENDA OF SWINE (California)

ANTIGAMA (Poland)

ASPHYX (Netherlands)

ATHEIST (Florida)

BIRDFLESH (Sweden)

BOLT THROWER (England)

BRUTAL TRUTH (New York)

CAR BOMB (New York)

CATHETER (Colorado)

COMPLETE Failure (Pennsylvania)

CROWPATH (Sweden)

DEVOURMENT (Texas)

DRUGS OF FAITH (Maryland)

ENSLAVED (Norway)

ENTRAILS MASSACRE (Germany)

FLESH PARADE (Louisiana)

GENERAL SURGERY (Sweden)

GNOSTIC (Georgia)

GRIEF (Massachusetts)

HAIL OF BULLETS (Netherlands)

HERO DESTROYED (Pennsylvania)

IMMOLATION (New York)

JIG-AI (Czech Republic)

KEEP OF KALESSIN (Norway)

KILL THE CLIENT (Texas)

LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR (Illinois)

MAGRUDERGRIND (Washington DC)

MAN MUST DIE (Scotland)

MARDUK (Sweden)

MARUTA (Florida)

MAYHEM (Norway)

MISERY INDEX (Maryland)

NAPALM DEATH (England)

PESTILENCE (Netherlands)

PHOBIA (California)

PIG DESTROYER (Virginia)

PRETTY LITTLE FLOWER (Texas)

ROTTEN SOUND (Finland)

SAYYADINA (Sweden)

SPLITTER (Sweden)

SWALLOW THE SUN (Finland)

THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE (Canada)

THE RED CHORD (Massachusetts)

TODAY IS THE DAY (Tennessee)

TRAP THEM (New Hampshire)

TRIAC (Maryland)

UNEARTHLY TRANCE (New York)

VENOMOUS CONCEPT (England and NY)

VICTIMS (Sweden)

WEEKEND NACHOS (Illinois)

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108626

DOWN Working On New Material

DOWN/ex-PANTERA bassist Rex Brown has told Billboard.com that there's "a lot of material left over" from last year's "Over the Under" album, which was recently released in a deluxe edition through Best Buy. The outtakes will be considered for the fourth DOWN album, but Brown adds that the quintet is also "writing constantly on the road. We still have all these ideas, and we play a lot of new stuff at sound check, just to feel it out. Hopefully we can get back in the studio in the fall and work on something." Also in the works is a documentary of DOWN's 2006 reunion after a nearly four-year hiatus, including both live and behind-the-scenes footage. "It's kind of about us learning how to walk together again," Brown said. "It just chronicles the life on the road of us starting to play again. We're right in the middle of it now."

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108692

NEVERMORE Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Seattle metallers NEVERMORE have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

AMON AMARTH

CATHEDRAL

EINHERJER

HAMMERFALL

IN EXTREMO

KAMPFAR

KORPIKLAANI

MACHINE HEAD

NEVERMORE

TRISTANIA

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108688

MASTODON Guitarist Hospitalized; Band To Continue Touring As Three

Bill Kelliher, guitarist with Atlanta-based progressive metallers MASTODON, has been hospitalized in London as of November 3 during the band's current European "Unholy Alliance: Chapter III" package tour with SLAYER, TRIVUM and AMON AMARTH. Doctors will continue to monitor his condition which is improving at press time.

At the moment, MASTODON has decided to continue on the tour as a trio. Doctors and Bill are hopeful that he will rejoin his bandmates in time for their headlining tour of Europe which begins November 30 in Utrecht, Holland and ends on December 7 at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in Somerset, England.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108681

Review of Witchcraft - Firewood(2005)

8.7/10

1. Chylde of Fire - 2:50

2. If Wishes Were Horses - 3:16

3. Mr. Haze - 3:41

4. Wooden Cross(I Can't Wake the Dead) - 4:46

5. Queen Bees - 5:13

6. Merlin's Daughter - 1:32

7. I See a Man - 3:59

8. Sarrow Evoker - 5:44

9. You Suffer - 2:43

10. Attention!(+hidden track) - 11:40

Funny Ozzy cell phone Comercial

Review of The Keepers of Jericho - A Tribute to Helloween

8.5/10

The Metal Review podcast 002 - The Halloween Edition

TheMetalReviewPodcast002.mp3

Intro
Early Man – Sinking the Blade

AC/DC Defends Wal-Mart Deal
AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson recently spoke to Reuters about the band's decision to sell its newest album, "Black Ice", exclusively via Wal-Mart when it drops in record stores on Oct. 20.

"Maybe I'm just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless 'em, it's going to kill music if they're not careful," Johnson, 61, told Reuters. "It's a...monster, this thing," he said. "It just worries me. And I'm sure they're just doing it all in the interest of making as much...cash as possible. Let's put it this way, it's certainly not for the...love, let's get that out of the way, right away," he said.

Johnson also pointed out that Wal-Mart has been very loyal to AC/DC over the years, so the band had no problem giving the retailer an exclusive. "A lot of people were saying 'Ah man, you're going to the big Wal-Mart, you're selling out,'" Johnson said. "Wal-Mart were the only big store to stock all of our albums, every single one of them, and they've never deviated. And they sold AC/DC shirts and pajamas for kids, which we thought was really cool."
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN0930346920081013?sp=true

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich told The Pulse of Radio that he doesn't understand the controversy that has broken out in recent weeks over the audio quality of the band's new album, "Death Magnetic". Some fans and publications have accused the group and producer Rick Rubin of mixing the album at such a loud volume that the music is distorted and difficult to listen to. But Ulrich said that he's more than happy with the way it turned out. "I listen to this record, and I listen to it every couple of days," he said. "And when I hear it, it puts a smile on my face and it blows me away, and I don't understand what people are talking about. Somebody told me the other day that there were 12,000 people that had signed a petition to remix the record. We've sold two and a half million copies of 'Death Magnetic'. You do the math yourself."
"Death Magnetic" has sold more than a million copies in the U.S. alone since coming out on September 12.
A number of fans said online that they prefer the versions of the CD's tracks prepared for the Guitar Hero video game, which are mixed differently.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=106843


Let There Be Blood' available
San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans EXODUS have posted two songs from the re-recording of their classic 1985 debut album, "Bonded by Blood", on their MySpace page. "A Lesson in Violence" and "Metal Command" will be streaming online for a limited time, allowing fans a chance to officially test-drive the controversial release", titled "Let There Be Blood", which hits streets this October 28 through Zaentz Records.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=106868

IN FLAMES Named 'International Act' Of Year At Russia's RAMP Awards
Swedish metallers IN FLAMES were honored in the "International Act" category at the RAMP (Rock Alternative Music Prize) awards, which took place on October 11, 2008 at The B1 Maximum Club in Moscow, Russia.
The nominees in the "International Act" category were as follows:
APOCALYPTICA
FOO FIGHTERS
HIM
IN FLAMES
OFFSPRING
PANIC! AT THE DISCO
PAPA ROACH
RADIOHEAD
SERJ TANKIAN
THE KILLERS

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=107002


Type O Negative – Halloween in Heaven
Cradle of Filth – Midnight Shadows Crawl to Darken

SLAYER In The Studio Working On New Album
n a Southern California recording studio earlier this month, recording three new songs for a brand new album expected out summer 2009. new songs, "Psychopathy Red"
http://spin.com/articles/exclusive-video-slayer-studio



AMON AMARTH Frontman Comments On 'Thunder God' Billboard Chart Debut
Earlier in the month, AMON AMARTH's seventh full-length album, "Twilight of the Thunder God", sold more than 11,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 48 on The Billboard 200 chart.
"I think we were all actually kind of surprised we'd reached that high," frontman Johan Hegg told MTV News last week. "We're happy we did, and I think one of the key elements that contributed to [the high debut], obviously, is building a fanbase. That's what we've been doing all these years as we've steadily grown as a band. The fact that we've had a couple of successful tours in the U.S. has helped, and the fact that this record actually is really good didn't hurt."
Devin Townsend – Vampoka/Vampira
Dark Moor – Halloween(Helloween cover)

Cradle of Filth - Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais)

7.4/10

1. In Grandeur and Frankincense Devilment Stirs – 2:27

2. Shat Out of Hell – 5:03

3. The Death of Love – 7:13

4. The 13th Caesar – 5:35

5. Tiffauges – 2:14

6. Tragic Kingdom – 6:00

7. Sweetest Maleficia – 5:59

8. Honey and Sulphur – 5:37

9. Midnight Shadows Crawl to Darken Counsel with Life – 8:58

10. Darkness Incarnate – 8:55

11. Ten Leagues Beneath Contempt – 4:58

12. Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder – 5:36

13. Corpseflower – 2:41