Nevermore guitarists leaves for personal and health reasons
August 31, 2007
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Nevermore guitarists leaves for personal and health reasons. Steve Smyth stated:
“All things find their end eventually, and at this time I wish to make it clear that this was mutually agreed between the band and myself,” Steve said in a statement.
“I will continue on with other aspects of my music career, including the upcoming release of THE ESSENESS PROJECT, an all-instrumental album in the vein of progressive rock that is now finished and being prepared for release.”
“After a year and four months of being out of the touring scene due to ill health and then a kidney transplant, I have finally been given a full health clearance by my doctors to go back on the road, and I am now ready to return to the stage.
“I am proud and extremely honored to have been a guest of Uli Jon Roth at his Sky Academy concert series this past weekend, August 24th and 25th , in L.A. What an awesome experience! To jam with one of the greatest, as well as several other incredible guitarists and musicians who have been big influences on my playing over the years, and to make new friends as well, the whole thing was just incredible. Many thanks to Uli for inviting me, it was truly an honor!
“I am now embarking on a six-week of tour of Europe with my friends from the Danish thrash metal band, SPV recording artists HATESPHERE, first supporting BEHEMOTH in Poland, and then joining the DIMMU BORGIR tour. I have been a fan of HATESPHERE and friends with the band since 2003, when they opened for TESTAMENT at a festival we played together, and absolutely look forward to getting out with them and together, crushing Europe!”
THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving posted the following on his Myspace page saying humans are not perfect
August 31, 2007
THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving posted the following on his Myspace page saying humans are not perfect
“Basically I think the biggest problem in our lame little world of Angloeuropean/American self-absorbtion is self-pity. It’s a tradition we’ve carried for 1500 years, maybe more. ‘Poor me.’ ‘Nobody understands.’ ‘I am alone.’ Etc.
“In the last couple of hundred years it’s been brough to amazing heights by every single philosofer, poet and writer worth mentioning. Romantisizing the idiot construction of mentally crawling up your own ass and to see notion but nothing, really.
“The affect. Our own emotions, with the fabulous presumption that they are true. Kant, Schopenhauer, Sartre, Nietsche, Yates, Thoreau, Camus. On and on, these and hundreds more elaborate on the relation between individual and reality. Mostly they end up emphazising the ideal of the loner. The single individual. The Me. The I.
“It’s funny how even the base of Christianity is built in such a strong slab of this idealized suffering and self-centrism. The fairytale of Jesu the Carpenter, the strong chosen ONE walks a predestined path, and ends up facing a FINAL test of utter pain and suffering through which he is relieved and made ethereal, godlike. Thus his words and actions gain a higher justification, and suspends reason. Leaving it all up to the most abstract concept of good faith…
“Tolkien and C.S. Lewis carry the tradition on, just as the ‘Die Hard’ movies, ‘Terminator’ or Clint Eastwood’s ‘Dirty Harry’ character. In absurdum we idolize the ALONE who must suffer for redemption.
“You know what I say about it. Hi ho, just fuck it. The idea of suffering for some abstract higher good. Some ridiculous truism that always in the end serves the end of those who, with the same thought construction, believe their higher good is of greater importance and have the balls to suffer more for it.
“Ask any honest masochist. They’ll tell you how simple it really is, ‘It hurts sooo good.’ They are clear and open about the basic fact that IF you enjoy the pain, it will give you pleasure.
“‘It ain’t necessarily so…,’ to quote Cole Porter. Not in this thing we call everyday life and physical reality. I believe the tradition of self-pity, and turning the one who suffers into selfdestructing heroes is ultimatly doing immense harm to the human species in an annihilation kinda way. Really.
“The pattern may have worked in the past, certainly. But think about it. Trial by fire ain’t no interspecies affair. Just because WE (for some reason beyond my understanding) enjoy hurt, feeling crappy and identify with HEROES IN PAIN ON A CRUSADE FOR THE GRAAL, doesn’t mean the rest of the dominant or subdominant creatures on the planet agree. Other mammals i.e. run AWAY from pending disaster. Sure, bugs, mosquitos and flies fly into things that kill them, but hey, they procreate at a rate that make us look like oooooooold fuckers staggering to get it off in comparison.
“We are very much the minority here you know. Micro-organisms and insects rule this planet by far. We just passengers.
“Enough of the facts… Think about this; Don’t you like being on this planet? Don’t you think it’s great that you have the capacity to let rip farts that smell horrendous and that you have evolved to the amazing position where you can actually laugh at that? Isn’t it super-cool that you can give yourself enough pleasure in your own little lonesome to make you pant and sniff and go ‘Oooo…’ and that other humans can too? Tell me honestly if you don’t see the beauty of painting, music, film making dance and sculpture. Do you ever laugh? Cry? They are both highly improbable concepts if you consider the facts of how large the time space continuum surrounding us all are, still we do those things.
“Now if life is nothing but sheer and utter damnation to you, if you find no joy in simple things like taking a dump, eating a piece of bread or the rare and beautiful moments right before sleep hits I suggest you go with the following two plans:
A. Seek help.
B. Kill yourself.
“Why? Well, I think you will find help if you seek it. And plan B of course is still going to be there íf all else fails, right?
“On September 15th. There is a rally in Washington DC against the United States government’s war, and their obvious bullshit. If you are anywhere close or have the “means and money to get there, go. Find out more and go.
“You and I are worth too much to not care for. We may be uglier than fuck. Limp and covered in greasy hair, or picture perfect — we are also ALIVE, we have an undecided amount of time before that ends. Spending that time in feeling crappy is really wasting that time.
“The world ain’t perfect, because we humans are not perfect. We can’t possibly be perfect, but we have a free choice. A very simplistic do or don’t do code built in our elaborate little brains. We are always free to act, and proudly carry the consequences of those actions.
“Being a victim sure as fuck sucks, and the only way stop being one is to simply get up. That is something that begins in our heads. Simply stand when they say sit. Sit when they say stand. If that is what it takes. If you are in peril, and the possibility is there; simply move out of harms way. Like Aikido. Stand, and move. Fuck those morons who want pain death and suffering. Fuck the dumbass sorry sons of bitches who worship death and destruction. Fuck those who pray at the altar of master and servant. BDSM is for those who ENJOY it, it sure as fuck ain’t meant for global politics and personal ideology.
“I will stand. That’s my choice. We all have one.”
Joe Satriani’s Surfing With The Alien album In Stores Now!
August 31, 2007
Joe Satriani’s Surfing With The Alien album In Stores Now!
It’s rare than an instrumental rock album reaches the Billboard charts and produces popular radio hits. But 1987’s groundbreaking Surfing With The Alien was able to do just that, and much more, selling hundreds of thousands of records along the way earning a Platinum certification. Upon it’s release, almost overnight, Joe Satriani became regarded as one of rock’s top guitarists, finishing at the top of guitar magazine polls for years to come. Surfing With The Alien peaked at #29 on the Top 200 Album Chart selling over two million copies. The album includes the charting hits “Satch Boogie” and “Surfing With The Alien”, Plus the Grammy-nominated “Always With Me, Always With You.”
Order Joe Satriani’s special edition of “Surfing With The Alien” now and for a limited time and while supplies last, get an AUTOGRAPHED
booklet with your order!
EVILE THRASH IT UP AT VIRGIN MEGASTORE IN-STORE SHOW
August 31, 2007
EVILE THRASH IT UP AT VIRGIN MEGASTORE IN-STORE SHOW
To commemorate the release of their debut album ‘Enter The Grave’ in the UK/Europe on Monday August 27, Yorkshire thrashers EVILE played a frenetic in-store gig in Manchester’s Virgin Megastore to hoardes of chanting, thrash-hungry fans. Speaking about the chaos that they caused in the store, Evile guitarist Ol Drake has stated:
“It was killer playing to all those Thrashers in a store setting. People didn’t seem to care that they were in a record store. It was just a plain old Metal show. Circle Pits, Moshing, head-banging galore. We Thrashed the shit out of the Verging Megawhores. We want to say a huge cheers to all the people who came down to Thrash with us, and a huge cheers to all at Virgin Megastores Manchester (Arndale) and Lucy Holliday”.
Watch for yourselves as Evile stamp their thrash-metal charm all over the Manchester music store on the following YouTube footage:
Thrasher
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3rg-z2sG6E
First Blood
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3_lgRwIh3g
Schizophrenia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-22IzvXUk
Bathe in Blood
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqlA5vutvv4
Armoured Assault
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibf2VJW5gUk
Enter the Grave
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NqlhL-_Zwo
‘Enter The Grave’ is out now in UK/Europe and 25th September in the USA.
Catch Evile on tour at the following dates:
01Sep - The Tavern, Wigan
02 Sep - The Attic, Manchester
08 Sep - Bar Monsta, London
15 Sep - All Day Thrash @ The Irish Club, Birmingham
16 Sep - The Junction, York
20 Sep - Joseph’s Well, Leeds
27 Sep - Junktion 7, Nottingham
28 Sep - The Rigger, Newcastle Under Lyme
03 Oct - The Twist, Colchester
21 Oct - Joiners, Southampton
22 Oct - Barfly, Cardiff
23 Oct - Barfly, London
24 Oct - Little Civic, Wolverhampton
25 Oct - Barfly, Glasgow
26 Oct - Joseph?s Well, Leeds
27 Oct - Sugar Mill, Stoke
28 Oct - Corporation, Sheffield
29 Oct - Zodiac, Oxford
30 Oct - Soundhaus, Northampton
31 Oct - Arts Centre, Colchester
01 Nov - Roadhouse, Manchester
10 Nov - PRIVATE GIG, Windsor
08 Dec - FULL THRASH ASSAULT 08 - Snooty Fox, Wakefield
13 Dec - Rock City - Nottingham
21 Dec - The Studio -Hartlepool
23 Dec - The Waterfront - Arbroath, Scotland
Update on the Vader! DVD
August 31, 2007
1. Intro
2. ShadowFear
3. Sothis
4. Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead)
5. Warlords
6. Silent Empire
7. Blood of Kingu
8. Out of the Deep
9. Carnal
10. Dark Age
11. Black to the Blind
12. Intro: Para Bellum
13. This Is the War
14. Lead Us
15. What Colour Is Your Blood
16. Epitaph
17. Cold Demons
18. Predator
19. Wings
20. Wyrocznia
Bonus video clips:
“Sword of the Witcher”
“Helleluyah (God Is Dead)” - taken from CD “Impressions in Blood” (Regain Records)
Also includes:
- Animated menu
- Interview with Peter
- Photo gallery
- Band history
- Discography
- Desktop images
- Weblinks
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
CD (swing case edition only)
1. Intro
2. ShadowFear
3. Sothis
4. Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead)
5. Warlords
6. Silent Empire
7. Blood of Kingu
8. Out of the Deep
9. Carnal
10. Dark Age
11. Black to the Blind
12. Intro: Para Bellum
13. This Is the War
14. Lead Us
15. What Colour Is Your Blood
16. Epitaph
17. Cold Demons
18. Predator
19. Wings
20. Wyrocznia
Total running time: approx. 105 min. (DVD) + 70 min. (CD)
US release date: 05.11.2007
Label: Metal Mind Records
Genre: death metal
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DVD
Cat no: MMP DVD 0123
Barcode: 5907785030824
Cat no USA: MVDV4666
Barcode USA: 022891466697
Total running time: approx. 105 min.
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DVD+CD limited swing case edition
Cat no: MMP DVD 0124
Barcode: 5907785030831
Total running time: approx. 105 min. (DVD) + 70 min. (CD)
